In the Desert With Jesus

In this issue of Catholic Update the author explores the ""wilderness experience"" expressed in the Scriptures and echoed in the Church's forty-day journey to Easter. ""The questions and issues we face are basically the same as those we have seen in the Old Testament and in the New,"" Guinan writes. ""They are themes ripe for our Lenten practice, themes around which we can organize our traditional Lenten practices of prayer, fasting and almsgiving.""