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SUMMARY:Holy Communion and Junior Church
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DESCRIPTION:Holy Communion for the second Sunday before Advent: celebrant 
 the Revd Tola Badejo. Junior Church takes place at the same time in the ha
 ll.\n\nFirst reading: 2 Thessalonians 3. 6-13\nGospel: Luke 21. 5-19\n\nIn
  AD 70 a Roman army destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem\, in the course of s
 uppressing a revolt against their rule\; they also levelled most of the re
 st of the city and killed or enslaved many of its inhabitants.  Jesus spok
 e his prophetic words about the destruction of the Temple some forty years
  before the event occurred\, but Luke (and possibly Mark\, who includes a 
 similar passage) wrote them down in its aftermath. The Gospel accounts are
  therefore set against a background of intentional\, violent destruction o
 n an extreme scale.\n\nEarly Christians undoubtedly believed that these an
 d other terrible events were harbingers of the end of time and the second 
 coming of Christ. Now\, we might take a different lesson from Jesus's word
 s: faith does not protect us from challenges\, but rather supports us in f
 acing them. The epistle looks at Christian responsibility from a different
  perspective: each must contribute to the community as he or she is able\,
  and take from it no more than they genuinely need.
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