Pastor in tabulation for the peace, the glorious peace of resurrection, the church has chosen with 40 days, a period of 40 days. The 40 days are this time which is sacred and full of meaning and appears again and again in the history of our salvation. The pilot is 40 days for the first time in the book of Genesis, where it is described in the times of Noah, There is God repented to have made man, being enraged by the disloyalty and by the sinfulness of the human race. And often again and again, mercy and his forgiveness, he refused, finally, before the day marked the time of the period of annihilation.

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the period of death, the period of judgment, where the waters cover this earth and destroy everything living on the face of the earth. But this time of judgment, which destroys weakness, at the same time also lifts up the one in whom God is well pleased. and that is no one to despair. In the midst of a disobedient and rebellious man-fight, no one followed the command of God, and he built the ark out of wood, and the same flood which brings destruction to the wicked also carries the ark Spirit of the wood, and in him lays the earth on the high mountain, and there the sacrifice of reconciliation is offered, and the grave over the pier is the sign of divine peace.

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We have other periods of 40 days which We meet in the desert when the Jewish people be led out of their captivity in Egypt. For 40 years they were taken into the school of the Lord. What was happening in the desert? During this time, we find Moses. We call up to the summit of Mount Sinai, and there for forty days and forty nights, asking, Do you receive? Pure Christ in this morning receives the divine man. And when he comes and escapes after these 40 days from the mountain, he finds that in the meantime the people have apostatized, that they have chosen to make for themselves another God, a God who would be with them.

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And that was the golden calf. And so Moses, for forty days and forty nights again, this time he implores the God of Israel to have mercy on this evil people. And then he is brought by God up again to Mount Sinai, and there he is seated, put into the place in the rock, It is as it is said in the Holy Scripture, not the faith of God, because nobody will see God's glory and live. What's the backup? And what are they? They are His mercy. The mercy in which God forgives. So the manifestation of Lamb's glory was given first of all.

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That is what roasted the snakes after these 40 days of intercession for this simple will. And it is why we say after 40 days of wandering in the desert, They are allowed to pass the Jordan and take possession of the promised land. And during these 40 days, which began with William passing through the Red Sea, and then with the passing of the Jordan, we have had 40 years of temptations. Again and again the people is being tested as to its loyalty to God. They were for the egress of great difficulty and are dealing with temptation.

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There was the temptation of rapture, hunger. That's the people were yearning for the flesh drops of Jesus. and sterilized the temptation of idolatry of the golden calf, and again the people yielded. They went for an equalistic sacrifice again, a period of four days, in the night of the poverty night. He, after having won his victory over others, He's persecuted by the political authorities of his country, and he's forced to leave this world, and goes into Jerusalem, that means in the direction of the dead. And there he goes, he's down, cast himself down at the foot of the juniper tree, juniper tree, and there he is.

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in disgust, and in complete despondence. He says, O Lord, take me away, because I am not better than my father. And there in this deep despair, the angel of the Lord appears to him, and he will steal his good food, that food in the heart of which Expeller to walk through closing gates until he reaches Mount Zion, O Mount Horeb, which is the same mountain where the God that gives to him, and now not in iron, and not in stone, and not in earth, but in a quiet, silent voice. The voice of mercy, the voice of forgiveness, the voice of strength is beloved.

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To anoint the king, and to find the Israel. Not people, no, but step-ups who have never been there. He is true God. Then again, in the lecture, by the polytheists in the prophecy of Jonah. Jonah, who was sent by God to announce forgiveness to the greatest enemy, the chosen people at Yonah, the Assyrians in the capital of England. And Jonah confused And it tries to get a ship that will bring it to space, just the opposite direction of me. But it's totally stupid. And in the end, thrown into the sea, swam by a revival, and then stayed in the square.

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He is then to be buried again and preaches there the forty days, the temple of forty days, after which Nineveh would be destroyed. And the result of it came. on these things, and we will reach out to God so that the end is mercy and the tears will end. And Joseph is the point. I knew he said that you would be the God of mercy and that you would do this for these things. And then We come to the other 40 days with which you find the innumerables. And then now the 40 days of fasting are the glory of Jesus. And these 40 days, the gospel, they summarize, they repeat all these significance of the 40 days which we have just mentioned up to this point.

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Our Lord Jesus Christ is the contagion one, let's say, of Israel. In his own life, his cover life, he will teach the whole story of the chosen people. He is the new Lord, and he is the new Moses, and he is the new Son of God, the Israel, the chosen one. And therefore unto be baptized in the Jordan, hast thou taken to the waters, being drowned just where in the waters of the great flood? Keep us saints, and with thee is heaven opened, and clears the voice which declares that this is finding of something by their deeds. and letting the Holy Spirit to descend upon me leads me into the desert, but to be tempted, and to be tempted by these three words, be tempted upon the cross of him.

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And they will suggest to him, when you are hungry, as long as you are hungry, why don't you use the power that you have and turn these stones into bread and eat your steak that way. And he will use this for every work that was seen from the mouth of God. And the other temptation is being brought to the temple, that was the religious center of these plundering people. And there they are gathered together, all the thousands and thousands of pilgrims. Now here they are, and here is the people. So let us take you down on the pinnacle of the temple and show them in this way that you are truly the disciples. Give them spectacular sight so that the powers will be convinced and accept you as their miracle work, as their disciples.

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That is the temptation of the sun. to pray for truth and doubt, a God who fits into the ideas of man, who is the confirmation of man's expectations about the thoughts that we have on our skills of God. Usually that temptation consists in this, show the power and glory of God without cause. And that was also here the temptation that our Lord refuses. And in the end comes the temptation of idolatry. I give to this world all the glory of the kingdoms if you only adore me. You are rich too. So these are also the temptations that the Jewish people had to go through.

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They are the temptations that every man and man find first as a dead man in the course of history. Let us therefore answer by the blessing of these deliverance of these various gifts of the forty days to our lives, to these forty days which we enter on today. First of all, looking back at the forty days of the Lord, we should recognize that the forty days of life are utterly spontaneous, overwhelming, recognition of the fact that mankind is guilty for God, that mankind can win as the part of mankind unworthy of God's judgment, of God's permission of death.

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After all, that is the people of past, man of fire, in order to show to God that he is really, in his own eyes, not worthy to live. And they were to be abstained from food, that he would instead be contained in order to prolong, as you say, the expanse of his life. Man resides, as it were, their basic right to live in this demonic culture of abstaining from truth. We realize, therefore, in celebrating these forty days, that the wickedness and sin of man will include it. We do what Christ our Lord did when he joined the sinners and went down the Jordan, and there was immerse in the waters of the Jordan, so that the waters covered, as they had covered mankind in the dish of the bread.

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Joining the sinners, that is what we do in this day and age. As Catholics, we should realize that. We stay here in this late season. Our world, our world, our most beautiful world. We do not act like that. And say, now look here. We have stemmed from food, and the rest of the world does not eat our mountains and our spirit. How good we are. The works of this Lenten season would be wasted if they could serve our building of our own religious fantasy. And if they would induce us to look down with contempt on those who do not enter into the same good works that we are doing during this Lenten season.

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The punctuation We, in these 40 days, we act like boxes on our side. These 40 days are for us days of accidents, of panic, not only for ourselves, but for the whole of mankind. We take the strength of mankind upon our own shoulders. If you don't care for what we do these 40 days, in order to infuriate the races of God upon our status. We do not use the holy and sacred means which the Church puts at our disposal for our earthly advantage. We don't follow the suggestion of the devil who told our Lord Jesus Christ After all, you have the power to turn these stones into bread.

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Why don't you use that power? We don't follow that suggestion that says, no, you are good Catholics, you are children of God, therefore you also have the right to abide in peace and in comfort. We don't think that way. It would be thinking in the ways of man and not thinking in the ways of God. We are animated not by things of sin and sinter, mercy and nature, but we are animated by the feeling and the impulse of a love that is not our own. Therefore, we do reconsider this death season as a guaranteed opportunity to do something for others out of the fullness of grace and of love.

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We realize during the death season that God has chosen us Without our own personal memory, to be members of this church, not for our own salvation only, but for the salvation of all. Just as the Jewish people were led into the desert, not for their own perfection only, But then Frederick came to the letter to be tried and wear as a holy priest in the United States. And that is what the Dentesis means. We are all captives, from the Pope down to the last of us, being tried in our priestly mission, that mission which offers sacrifice for the sins of men. That mission which impairs us to pray in prayers of intercession for the old man.

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Everyone in Europe, after all their father, faith as man is more important. We grow into what we can with every new year in a new way. And therefore, thank you. The love of the neighbor is more important and more a reality to us. We see our mental roles as well if you want to do it. And therefore the good that we do is not only done for ourselves, it's done for the whole of man. And then this Lenten season is also a repetition of these 40 days that Elias was wandering up to the fountain where God appeared to him.

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This Lenten season is the time in which we receive the grace of the angels, Holy Communion. in which we go to Mass every day, every day the Church has a day, the table covered with the bread of the English, the Holy Communion, with the bread of the Word of God, every Mass, in new and different form, in every Mass, In other gospels and other epistles, the way of God's word is being poured out upon us during these things. Let us therefore make use of the word and let us listen to it. Let us make use of the empty food of the church. And then as we're speaking, holding communion, that in that way we may be able to ascend, ascend to the mountain where the glory of God appears to us in the small, still voice of forgiveness.

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This first week of the Lent is so beautiful, in fact. Because it leaves us while, as if this first week were really a spun week of the beginning of the whole of the season. What we start today, next Sunday it comes as it were to its first fulfillment. When, now entering into the day of our God, we are on our way to Mount Horeb, And this coming Sunday, we are with our Lord on the mountain of Transfiguration, and there we see him surrounded with apostles who passed the 40 days, and the saints who passed the 40 days. And there we are as if we are the next Sunday, the Sunday of the Transfiguration. And the glory of him, of this

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The mountain of the transgressors, where we speak of Christ in his divine glory, Christ is the victim. Therefore, make this lesson for all of us. Not be only a time in which we, in power and faith, resist the temptations of the devil, in which we, in the spirit of India, recognize that even before the justice of God we are guilty, all of us, all of mankind. But let this late season also be a time of hope and a time of joy. The time in which we as God's children take part in the witness of faith that the Heavenly Father has to care for his poor ones.

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Let us use these 40 days that we can be burdened and that we may be empowered It will shock and heal the Holy Spirit, able to enter into the great peace of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Let these 40 days be a time of hope and of joy and of hopeless conquest.

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