Sunday Sermon

“When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards lie was hungry.”—Matthew: 4: 2. To do penance, to deny one’s self, and to mortify the flesh is most necessary; The Gospel of today reminds us of a special manner of doing penance, of which Jesus Christ, the Son of God, gives us an example: “When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.” The example of Jesus Christ is there to encourage all Christians to fast, abstain and endure hunger; and it is to that that the Catholic Church binds her children during this season under pain of sin, that they may imitate Christ to a certain extent.