Palm Sunday denotes the beginning of Holy Week. Holy Week is , in truth, a fabric woven of conflicting imagery. What does Holy Week speak into our lives this year? Are the evocative images of Good Friday merely ancient history? Or are those images inescapable reminders of the reality that evil resides within the depths of the human heart? What of the Last Supper? It is far more than a gathering of Jesus and His Disciples. The Last Super is a powerful and haunting prefiguring of the self-sacrificial love that defines and illumines the passion of our Lord. In truth, Holy Week in preparation for Easter morning, is a profound message of God’s grace and God’s mercy. Each Holy Week pastors talk about God’s mercy. Sadly, we forget that grace precedes and informs divine mercy. This Holy Week, our prayers, both individually and communal, should be in gratitude for God’s abundant grace. The fact we serve a God of grace is genuinely Good News. Blessings, Pastor Tom Mark 11:1-11 When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden; untie it and bring it. If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ just say this, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here immediately.’” They went away and found a colt tied near a door, outside in the street. As they were untying it, some of the bystanders said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” They told them what Jesus had said; and they allowed them to take it. Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it; and he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields. Then those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David! Hosanna in the highest heaven!” Then he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple; and when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. Comments are closed.
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