Religious Education

For our Religious Education communication today, I wish to share with you a reflection from Father Jessie (Parish Priest) that he communicated in last week's Burnie/ Wynyard Parish Newsletter.

To further help understand our observance this season of this First Sunday of Lent, the Gospel today presents to us different images. One of the prominent images is the desert. All of us should pass through the desert to discover God. We need to feel empty, thirsty and dry to understand the nature of the desert experience. 

On the other hand, Jesus presents Himself in the image of water. We need "water" to quench our thirst but more to wash us, so that we can be cleansed from the addictions that trap our inclinations to sin. This Lent, Jesus teaches us how to be strong against temptations through penance, prayer and fasting. Jesus will lead us and bring us to the fulfillment of the promise of the Father. 

This Lenten season is a time to go deeper into our faith through the experience of the desert and examine what we hold dear to our hearts, and to treasure the time to strengthen our relationship with God. - Fr. Jessie Banez