The Holy Gospel for this First Sunday in Lent is the evangelist Mark's very brief account of the temptation of Christ. The temptation account may bring to your mind the movie, The Last Temptation of Christ. That movie gained much attention, because many people protested the substance of what was purported to be a possible last temptation of our Lord. The suggested temptation was that on the cross Jesus thought about what life would have been or might have been like had he loved a woman and married. Many Christians found it impossible to believe that Jesus would be open to the consideration of such notions. In reality, we do not know precisely how all the temptations did come to our Lord. However, we do know that our Lord "in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin" (Hebre…