Friday: Week 5 in Lent Year B

Lent for Everyone
Mark Year B
WEEK 5 FRIDAY...

...It was late October 1991. The fishing boat Andrea Gail was five hundred miles out into the Atlantic, off the Massachusetts coast. A cold front was moving along the US–Canada border, causing turbulent weather in New England, while at the same time a high-pressure system was building over south-eastern Canada. These two systems would, without extra help, have created quite a storm; but there was more. A tropical hurricane, arriving from further south, completed the picture. It was the perfect storm. Ferocious winds and huge waves reduced the Andrea Gail boat to matchwood. There had, of course, been earlier ‘perfect storms’, but this was the one made famous by a book and a movie which took that phrase as their title.

I have often thought that when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on that first Palm Sunday, for which we are now getting ready as our Lenten journey nears its end, he was riding into a perfect storm...

Taken from Lent for Everyone Mark Year B by Tom Wright