The First Sunday of Advent Year A

The First Sunday of Advent - Year A

Isaiah 2:1–5
Romans 13:11–14
Matthew 24:36–44

Reflection on the first Sunday in Advent year A

In The Magician’s Nephew, one of his Narnia books,
C. S. Lewis describes a wood, which the children
reach by magic. It is a kind of no-place, which Polly
and Diggory come to call ‘the Wood between the Worlds’.
From that place they enter Charn, a dying world, Narnia
at the dawn of its creation, and return again, at last,
to their own world. But in the wood...

Taken from Lectionary Reflections

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