Tuesday: Fifth Week in Lent Year A

WEEK 5: TUESDAY
Matthew 24; focused on 24.45 –51

I vividly remember my first experience of working on a building site. I was a student, earning some money during the vacation. The work was physically hard – or rather, it would have been if we had kept it up all day. There was an unwritten law that you went at your tasks as slowly as you could, pausing regularly for a rest or a ‘smoke break’, except when the boss showed up. Then, of course, everyone would look brisk and get on as fast as they could. The play-acting would have been comic if the deceit hadn’t been so distasteful. Clearly, from Jesus’
comments about the slaves doing their jobs while...

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

Published by SPCK

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