Pulse 94.1 Fm

The Word–Fr Tony Percy–Catapulting Event (Fr Tony Percy says that in this Gospel passage St. Mark tells us quite remarkably that Jesus is thrown by using a very specific Greek word, Jesus was thrown into the desert by the Holy Spirit to be tested or tempted by Satan, which means accuser, Satan is the accuser. Jesus lived there with the wild beasts and the angels for 40 days and 40 nights, which evokes, of course, that biblical imagery of 40 days or rather long periods, very prominent in the Old Testament. It doesn't matter who you are. We have this experience in life of being uprooted, from our normal existence, of being dislocated, disrupted. We're almost catapulted, I call it a catapulting event, catapulted into a form of suffering, something that we would not necessarily choose. And this of course happens to Jesus. He's a human being. He's a divine person but he has a totally human nature, and he has this experience of being disrupted. When this happens, as it will inevitably happen to each one of us, what