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Commentary to the First Sunday of Lent – Year C

The temptation offers the opportunity to make a leap forward, improve, purify and consolidate the choices of faith. It also involves the risk of error: “For the fascination of evil obscures true values”—says the author of the Book of Wisdom—"and restless desires undermine a simple heart” (Wis 4:12). Temptation is not a provocation to evil but a stimulus to growth, a necessary step to reach maturity.