The First Sunday of Lent — A Message from St. Pope Leo the Great
Temptation of Christ, Vasili Surikov, 1872 Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Matthew (4:1-11) At that time Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry. And the tempter coming said to him: 'If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.' Who answered and said: 'It is written, [...]