PASSAGES -3 rd  Sunday of Lent, Year A             The Book of Exodus gives us the account of the Israelites being delivered by God under Moses from the bondage of slavery in Egypt through the Red Sea, across the desert to the Promised Land. The New Testament gives us an account of our deliverance through Jesus’ life, death and resurrection. In the waters of Baptism, sin is destroyed, and we pass through the desert of this life toward the New Testament Promised Land of the ki