“So much has been taken away from us in these last nine months, and it happened in the blink of an eye. One Sunday we were here, gathered with our retreatants, neighbours, friends, and members of the congregation, as we celebrated the Eucharist together. The next Sunday all that was taken away from us, and we prayed behind locked doors. Had we had known what was about to happen, what might we have said that Sunday before the lockdown began?” Br. James Koester considers the urgency that characterizes Mark's Gospel and its expectation of Jesus' imminent return, in light of the urgency that the pandemic and lockdown has given to our lives.