Palm Sunday
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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.
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The strangeness of the Palm and the Passion is that they enter into a mystery we long for and refuse equally.
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In Palm Sunday, we get the bittersweet realization that we’re not going to get to kill our enemies and assume power.