Thursday: Fifth Week in Lent Year A

WEEK 5: THURSDAY

Matthew 25; focused on 25.31– 46

One of the greatest soldiers of modern times recently published an autobiography. In it, he skates very lightly over one or two incidents in which, according to those who knew him at the time, he acted with almost incredible bravery in the face of extreme danger. But you wouldn’t know that from the book. It isn’t just modesty. His memory of the incidents, he will insist, is that he was concentrating totally on the safety of the soldiers under his command. He was completely focused on doing whatever was necessary to look after them while completing the dangerous tasks he and they had been assigned. That sense of not knowing what it was one was doing right – or, indeed..

Taken from Lent For Everyone – Matthew Year A by Tom Wright (2011)

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The #BigRead2011: meeting together in housegroups to read the Bible,
making use of Tom Wright's Matthew for Lent with opportunities to go
much bigger and much more creative and join in online (inter)nationally.
From quiet sitting rooms with Bibles and books, to coffee shops and
internet chatrooms across the world.