In this Commentary Clip, Tony discusses the strange line in the Gospel for the 1st Sunday of Lent that the Holy Spirit led Jesus “into the desert to be tempted by the devil.”
You can check out Tony’s full reflection for the 1st Sunday of Lent, Cycle C, here.
Works Cited:
Joseph Ratzinger, Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration, 26.
Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.
Tony’s academic publications can be found here.