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From the entrance to the exit—for Holy Week
Our approach to Holy Week ought to reflect our compassion and the vision we have learned from Jesus, of love and generosity and hope.
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Between the Fifth Sunday of Lent and the Passion (Year B)
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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Between Palm Sunday and Easter (Year A)
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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A Holy Week
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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Everything Everywhere All At Once Sunday
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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For Sunday (Palm Sunday)
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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Palms—tradition, attachment, and meaning
The intellectual challenge of Palm Sunday in the midwestern United States is that the main symbol is not ours.
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Between Lent 5 & Holy Week (Year A)
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.