Homily for the 1st Sunday in Lent, February 14, 2016, Year C

Fr. Charles Irvin
Senior Priest
Diocese of Lansing

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Oscar Wilde was a much-celebrated Anglo-Irish literary figure, very witty… and very worldly. He once wrote: “I can resist everything but temptation.” He lived in total self-indulgence, ridiculed Victorian moral norms and he died in Paris of meningitis in the year 1900. His view of life aptly ushered in the last