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Lent: The Road to Redemption, Cycle B is unavailable, but you can change that!

Every year on the first Sunday of Lent, the Gospel reading is about Jesus going off to the wilderness, or desert, for 40 days. On Ash Wednesday, we begin our own 40 days in the desert. This penitential season is an intense time of spiritual renewal. The Church especially invites us to pray, fast, and give alms as means of expressing our utter dependence on God who through the waters of baptism...

In Baptism, we get a fresh start. We become “new creations” (2 Cor. 5:17). This entails a restoration of our relationship with God the Father as His adopted sons and daughters in Christ. This, in a nutshell, is the gift of righteousness. We grow in this relationship with Christ and His Church through charity and obedience to the Gospel. Christ Himself assures us that all who hunger and thirst for righteousness (sometimes translated as “justice”) will have their fill (Mt. 5:6). St. Peter clearly emphasizes
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