Through the Desert God Leads us to Freedom

God has not grown weary of us.

Let us welcome Lent as the great season in which he reminds us:

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery” (Ex 20:2).

Lent is a season of conversion, a time of freedom. Jesus himself, as we recall each year on the first Sunday of Lent, was driven into the desert by the Spirit in order to be tempted in freedom. For forty days, he will stand before us and with us: the incarnate Son.

Unlike Pharaoh, God does not want subjects, but sons and daughters.

The desert is the place where our freedom can mature in a personal decision not to fall back into slavery.

(Message of Pope Francis for Lent 2024)

	Message of Pope Francis for Lent 2024
	Carlo Tancredi Falletti di Barolo – Jesus or The Pilgrim at the Holy Sepulchre
	Giulia Colbert Falletti di Barolo – Way of the Cross
	Giulia Colbert Falletti di Barolo – Meditations on the Way of the Cross (Italian)

Wishes for a good journey!