The liturgy places the story of the transfiguration of Jesus on the Second Sunday of the Lenten season, perhaps as a beacon of hope for Christians undergoing the rigors of Lenten fasting, abstinence, and other penitential works imposed by Church authority. The transfiguration is a preview of Jesus’ resurrection.
The gospel reading for the first Sunday of Lent is the story of the temptation of Jesus. That Jesus was tempted in his human nature is a tradition embedded in all four Gospels and in the New Testament Letter to the Hebrews.
The sacrament of baptism leads all into the mystery of life — past sins are forgiven, the baptized person is born into a new life. En el sacramento del Bautismo desemboca todo el misterio de la vida: el pasado del pecado, el presente del hombre nuevo y la esperanza del mundo definitivo.
