A Year With the Angels by Mike Aquilina

Author:Mike Aquilina
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Catholic, Christianity, Religion, Inspirational, Prayer, Devotional
ISBN: 9781618904171
Publisher: Saint Benedict Press
Published: 2011-11-01T06:00:00+00:00

IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER …

How well am I doing my job as God’s angel—that is, as his messenger of the Gospel?

CLOSING PRAYER

Lord, send me forth into the world as your angel to proclaim the gospel of your kingdom.

The threefold temptation of Christ

St. Augustine gives us an analysis of the temptation of Christ, showing how Satan tried to appeal to Christ’s hunger, his vanity, and his curiosity.

The temptation of the Lord Man was threefold:

1. By food: that is, by the lust of the flesh, where he suggests, “command these stones to become loaves of bread” (Matt. 4:3).

2. By vain boasting, where, when stationed on a mountain, all the kingdoms of this earth are shown him, and promised if he would worship (Matt. 4:8-9).

3. By curiosity, where, from the pinnacle of the temple, he is advised to throw himself down to see whether he would be held up by angels (Matt. 4:6).

Thus, after the enemy could not prevail on him with any of these temptations, it says, “when the devil had ended every temptation (Luke 4:13).

–St. Augustine, Exposition on Psalm 8, 13

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