Between the Fifth Sunday of Lent and the Passion (Year B)
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The gap in the text this week is all of the events of Holy Week and what they represent: a political execution of a political dissident.
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The gap in the text this week is all of the events of Holy Week and what they represent: a political execution of a political dissident.
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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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The challenge of dealing with all of Holy Week in a single Sunday is that we can’t. So we don’t even try. Which is a mistake.
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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 intellectual challenge of Palm Sunday in the midwestern United States is that the main symbol is not ours.
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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.
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Celebrating Palm Sunday forces us to recognize what responsibility we have. And what responsibility we pretend we don’t have.