The Twenty-first Sunday of the Year
Isaiah 66:18-21; Heb 12:5-7; Luke 13:22-30 (year c)
As the Book of Isaiah draws to its conclusion, it sets before us the vision of a heavenly Jerusalem come down to Earth: a place where God would dwell amongst his people. Rather than hiding themselves away from a hostile world, the inhabitants of this new Jerusalem would set out to the four corners of the Earth, to distant lands that had never heard of their God. There they would gather the nations to the Lord, bringing them to his presence in Jerusalem.
