Lent... Pray we must...

First Sunday Lent, part of the gospel looks at Jesus going into the wilderness and being tempted. It was interesting that Father Stephen at Christ the King Church mention about him and the other priest entered into priesthood not because they could not find girlfriends or to escape the pressures of the world as at the end of the day they will still have to live and serve in this world (this wild world). So I guess even the priest themselves will have to face the stress, the pressures and the temptation of this world.

Father caution and ask us to be aware that the devil will also try to promote or instill (other then temptation) a 14 letter word call discouragement. Jesus also went through that when he was in the wilderness. Avoid letting it overwhelm us. Have faith.

“Pray we must”… said father, even in this wild world where people will enter a house and pump 5 bullets into a husband and leaving the whole family in trauma… even when a father will kill his daughter and stuff its body under a flyover. If we do not pray who will then?… if we do not pray who will?.

Also other interesting things that was shared:

· Globalization tells us that there is enough for all our needs but not enough for our greed.

· Wealth is meant to be share.

God is love (Deus Caritas Est). With God's love we are able to change, with God's love we are able to face the "wildness" and live in this world and with God's love we are able to defeat the devil.