Monday Holy Week Year B
Taken from Lent for Everyone Mark Year B
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Lent for Everyone
Mark Year B
HOLY WEEK MONDAY...
How much did you earn last year?
Or, if you don’t earn a regular wage, how much did it cost you to live last year?
Think about that sum for a moment. Now imagine that someone who had that amount of money sitting in the bank decided to spend it all on a wonderful gift for you and your family. A magnificent set of china and silver, perhaps. Wonderful new furniture for the whole house. An entire library of all your favourite books (or, if you’re not into books, of DVDs – films, TV programmes, the lot). You can hardly imagine what a wonderful gift you would be given.
And now imagine that a member of your family had just met someone they considered utterly wonderful. Someone with such a combination of gentle wisdom, powerful insight, holiness and happiness, that simply to be in his presence was a privilege beyond words. And this family member decided, without telling the rest of you, to turn that wonderful gift back into cash and give it all to this strange new friend...
Taken from Lent for Everyone Mark Year B by Tom Wright