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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 our journey, we are often faced with the temptation of accumulating and love of money that undermines God’s primacy in our lives. The greed of possession leads to violence, exploitation and death; for this, the Church, especially during the Lenten period, reminds us to practice almsgiving—which is the capacity to share. The idolatry of goods, on the other hand, not only causes us to drift away from others, but divests man, making him unhappy, deceiving him, deluding him without fulfilling its
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