Between the Fourth and Fifth Sunday of Lent (Year B)
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Preparing for this week’s gospel, we should remember the context is in the midst of Holy Week, amid the effort to silence Jesus.
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Preparing for this week’s gospel, we should remember the context is in the midst of Holy Week, amid the effort to silence Jesus.
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Through Holy Week and Easter, the church engages in a process of corporate remembering. These homilies try to help with that.
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Preaching on Easter is both simple and difficult. Precisely because everything about it is supposed to be normal.
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The vain attempt to cover all of the action that takes place between the two Sundays. At least the first part anyway.
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Reading along with each day of Holy Week is a rewarding practice that helps connect us with all that goes into it.
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As big as Easter is, we load the Sunday before up with all of the pressure of explaining everything to come.
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We begin Holy Week with Palm Sunday and move quickly to the Passion. But there’s a lot more there we are called to read.
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The gap between Lent 5 and Holy Week is small—or would be if we stayed in John. But instead, we jump back to Matthew.