22 February 2026 - First Sunday of Lent ‘A’
Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7a; Romans 5:12-19; Matthew 4:1-11
Homily
God created man and woman in His image. He made them beings of communion and even breathed into them His own breath, His spirit of communion. And He gave them an extremely dangerous gift, that of freedom. Since then, from the first man and woman to us today, human beings have been subject to temptation, that is, to the tension between the call to communion, which is a call to the fullness of life, and the tendency to refuse communion and withdraw into oneself.