Through the desert, God leads us to freedom
"I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of a place of slavery" (Ex 20,2).
Jesus, as we remember every year on the first Sunday of Lent, was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tested in his freedom. The desert is the space in which our freedom can mature into a personal decision not to fall back into slavery. In Lent, we find new criteria of judgment and a community with which to embark on a path that we have never traveled before.
Let us welcome Lent as the strong time in which the Word of the Lord is addressed to us again.