As Lent begins, the Church leads us into the desert with Christ and His forty-day battle with the tempter. This week's reflection draws from the writings of Saint Augustine, Saint Leo the Great, and Saint Francis de Sales to explore how Jesus chose to face evil with the same weapons available to every human soul — faith, obedience, and the Word of God. Rooted in the Mass propers and readings for the First Sunday of Lent, we consider what it means to enter this holy season not with fear but with the confident trust of a child who knows exactly where to run when danger comes.

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