Sunday, 11/18/12
For centuries, before people agreed
on seeing each year beginning on January First, Christians saw it first as
beginning on the fourth Sunday before Christmas. (What we called the First
Sunday of Advent.) Along with that, they saw the world coming to an end in the
final Sundays leading up to Advent.
Next Sunday, the last Sunday of the
year, we will witness the beginning of
eternal glory with Christ the King presenting up with a heavenly
Jerusalem.
But in our long, Sunday-by-Sunday,
history of the world, before next Sunday’s view of the beginning of eternity,
today we must venture into the
unknown, trying to form a picture of what the end might be like.
The only thing we can know about
when this word will end is what jesusm says at the end of out Gospel: “But as
to the day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels n heaven, nor the Son, but
only the Father.”
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