Peacebuilding, 'a bargain' and 'proven investment', UN chief tells Member States

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Peacebuilding, 'a bargain' and 'proven investment', UN chief tells Member States

The UN chief has called for $100 million each year in assessed contributions from Member States, to fund the world body’s peacebuilding activities, describing such an investment as “a bargain” compared with the punitive costs of war.

Reflections for the I Sunday of Lent

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Reflections for the I Sunday of Lent

Fr. Antony Kadavil reflects and comments on the readings at Mass for the sixth Sunday in ordinary time. He says that the readings forcefully instruct us to face our temptations as Jesus faced them and conquer them using the same means that Jesus used.

The central theme: Lent begins with a reflection on the Temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. The Church assigns temptation stories to the beginning of Lent because temptations come to everybody, not only to Jesus, and we seem almost genetically programmed to yield to them. The readings forcefully instruct us to face our temptations as Jesus faced them and conquer them using the same means that Jesus used.