Given on the First Sunday of Lent at Santa Fe Episcopal Church in San Antonio, TX. The sermon is mostly in English, with Spanish sprinkled through as I continue to learn.
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En el nombre del Padre, el Hijo, y el Espíritu Santo. Amen.
Hoy es el primer domingo de la Cuaresma. Y en la Cuaresma es muy común de hacer una disciplina espiritual o de ayunar. El trabajo de la Cuaresma es interno. En la Cuaresma miramos en los corazones y en nuestras comunidades. Muchas veces olvidamos quienes somos en Dios y perseguimos las cosas del mundo.
Entonces aquí estamos, en el principio de la Cuaresma, hablamos sobre la tentación. Temptations. ¿Conocemos bien la tentación, no? ¿A quién les gustan las galletas girl scout? ¿Cuantos comen? ¿Una, dos, una caja entera?
Or who has ever stayed in bed when you know you could be out washing the car or doing other chores? Who has ever skipped church when you felt like you should be there? Who here has ever worked an extra hour at your job instead of going home to your family? Who here has ever pretended to not see the person standing at the street corner and asking for money? We know what temptation is. We know the feeling it leaves in our gut when what we want to do and what we know we ought to do don’t line up.
And so here at the beginning of Lent I have one question. What does the devil look like?
¿Cómo se ve el diablo?
Thoughts on Faith 
We discussed the same thing in class. What did the devil look like? An angel or perhaps internal pro and con in Jesus? Angel of each on both shoulders. Temptation is always alluring, never ugly. I would like permission to share your sermon with our class. Would that be OK?
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Absolutely! I almost shared it with them myself. Thanks for reading.
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