Matthew 3:1-12

2nd Sunday of Advent, year A.

Questions

1) What are your initial thoughts, feelings and ideas about this text?

2) What does the image of the desert evoke for you? A place of escape? A marginal place? A place of exile? A place from which prophecy comes? Where are our modern day deserts?

3) What are the false gods we worship? What are those our leaders worship? How can we call our false gods?

4) Repent! Metanoia! How are you called to a life revolution?

5) The cairn of stones in Joshua 4 was a reminder of the ancient covenant with God. What are our equivalents today? Symbols which remind us of our relationship to God and to each other.