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<b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><div style="outline:none;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Friends, today’s
 Gospel tells of</span></span><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"> the Lord’s temptation in the desert. After forty days 
of fasting in the desert (evocative of Israel’s
forty years of wandering in the desert), Jesus meets <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">the devil, who 
proceeds to lure</span> the Messiah <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">onto the path of sin</span>. </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Jesus’ sacrifice will
 entail his coming to battle <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">sin at close quarters</span>, his willingness, 
therefore, to be <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">drawn by its power</span>, to come<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> under its sway. </span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";text-align:inherit"> </span></b></div>
<br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">Satan
 first tempts </span>him <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">with sensual pleasure:</span> "If you are the Son of God, 
command that these stones become loaves of bread."</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">One of the most 
elemental forms of <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">spiritual</span> dysfunction is to make the satisfaction of 
sensual desire the center of <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">one’s</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">life</span></span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">.</span> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Jesus</span> responds: "One does not 
live on bread alone, but on every word that comes forth from the mouth 
of God."</span></b></span><br><br></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Jesus
 enters, through psychological and spiritual identification, into </span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the 
condition of the person </span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">lured by this sin</span></b>, <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">but then he manages to 
withstand</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">the temptation</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">and in fact to twist <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">this perversion</span> back to rectitude</span></b>.</span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></blockquote><div><b><font style="color:rgb(0,0,255)" size="4">Dicsőség az Atyának, a Fúinak és a Szentléleknek most és mindörökké. Ámen.</font></b> <br></div>

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