The BEST, not the beast | Homily 18 Feb 2024 with Fr. Jerry Orbos, SVD | 1st Sunday of Lent

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Someone said that one out of three people is ugly … So, if the person on your left is good-looking, you start getting worried. And if the person on your right is also good-looking, you have a problem?!
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In today’s Gospel (Mark 1: 12-15), we hear about how Jesus was tempted by Satan in the desert, and for 40 days, “He was among the wild beasts and the angels ministered to Him.” We, too, go through deserts and temptations in life. Who are the wild beasts in your life? Who are the angels that minister to you? May the Lord deliver us from our beasts, and give us more angels in our life.
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Are you a wild beast to other people? Do you make life difficult and painful for others? Or, are you an angel that comforts and protects other people? Life is hard enough for people. Please don’t make it harder for them. Choose to be an angel, not a beast as you journey through life.
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There is an angel and a beast in each one of us. What becomes prominent depends on whom we follow and listen to: If we follow Satan, the beast comes out in us. If we follow the Holy Spirit, the angel comes out in us.
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If your life is full of negativities, pride, anger, selfishness, deceit, and lies, you are being influenced by the evil one, whose strategy is to keep you focused on yourself. If you are an “I-me-myself” person, with not much thought on God and on other people, careful, you are walking on a dangerous road, that will lead to selfishness, pride, sin, emptiness, and perdition.
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If you listen to the Spirit, and continue