The Fourth Sunday before Advent Year A

The Fourth Sunday before Advent - Year A

Meditation on Matthew 24: 1-14

Gaze on a bombsite, in Baghdad,
perhaps, or maybe you’re old enough
to remember the rubble in our cities
after the Second World War, a newsreel
of Dresden, or the wreck of Hiroshima.
Homes have collapsed, spires have
tumbled and crypts are exposed, so
that everything is flat and unrecognizable.
Not one stone is left on another, everything
is thrown down. Once-proud banks have
been exposed and destroyed, glass has
shattered and scattered everywhere.
The street plan is lost, and you wander...

Taken from Gazing on the Gospels Year A by Judith Dimond

Published by SPCK