First
Reading
Deuteronomy 8:1-18
8This entire commandment that I command you today you must
diligently observe, so that you may live and increase, and go in and occupy the
land that the Lord promised
on oath to your ancestors.2Remember the long way
that the Lord your God
has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you,
testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his
commandments.3He humbled you by letting you hunger, then by feeding you with
manna, with which neither you nor your ancestors were acquainted, in order to
make you understand that one does not live by bread alone, but by every word
that comes from the mouth of the Lord. 4The
clothes on your back did not wear out and your feet did not swell these forty
years. 5Know then in your heart that as a parent disciplines a child so
the Lord your God
disciplines you. 6Therefore keep the
commandments of the Lord your
God, by walking in his ways and by fearing him. 7For the Lord your God is bringing you into
a good land, a land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters
welling up in valleys and hills, 8a land
of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive
trees and honey, 9a land where you may eat
bread without scarcity, where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are
iron and from whose hills you may mine copper.
10You shall eat your fill and bless the Lord your God for the good land
that he has given you. 11Take
care that you do not forget the Lord your
God, by failing to keep his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes,
which I am commanding you today. 12When
you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them, 13and
when your herds and flocks have multiplied, and your silver and gold is
multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, 14then do
not exalt yourself, forgetting the Lord your
God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, 15who led
you through the great and terrible wilderness, an arid wasteland with poisonous
snakes and scorpions. He made water flow for you from flint rock, 16and fed
you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble
you and to test you, and in the end to do you good. 17Do not
say to yourself, “My power and the might of my own hand have gotten me this
wealth.” 18But remember the Lord your
God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, so that he may confirm his
covenant that he swore to your ancestors, as he is doing today.
Psalm 91
1You who
live in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the
shadow of the Almighty,
2will
say to the Lord, “My refuge
and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”
9Because
you have made the Lord your
refuge, the Most High your dwelling place,
10no evil
shall befall you, no scourge come near your tent.
11For he
will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.
12On
their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against
a stone.
13You
will tread on the lion and the adder, the young lion and the serpent you will
trample under foot.
14Those
who love me, I will deliver; I will protect those who know my name.
15When
they call to me, I will answer them; I will be with them in trouble, I will
rescue them and honor them.
16With
long life I will satisfy them, and show them my salvation.
Gospel
Luke 4: 1-13
4Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was
led by the Spirit in the wilderness, 2where
for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those
days, and when they were over, he was famished. 3The
devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become a
loaf of bread.” 4Jesus answered him, “It
is written, ‘One does not live by bread alone.’” 5Then
the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the
world. 6And the devil said to him, “To you I will give their glory and
all this authority; for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I
please. 7If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” 8Jesus
answered him, “It is written, ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.’” 9Then
the devil took him to Jerusalem, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple,
saying to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, 10for it
is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,’ 11and ‘On
their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against
a stone.’” 12Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘Do not put the Lord your God
to the test.’” 13When the devil had finished every test, he departed from him
until an opportune time.