First Sunday of Lent
Gn 2:7-9; 3:1-7; Ps 51; Rom 5:12-19; Mt 4:1-11 (year a)
‘The Lord God fashioned man of dust from the soil. Then he breathed into his nostrils a breath of life, and thus man became a living being.”
The Genesis account of man’s creation and subsequent fall is more than primitive speculation concerning the origins of human life. It is, above all else, our story: a description of our longing to live life in its fullness, and a confession of the sinfulness that frustrates such longing.
