Passion
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Our anticipation of the Passion, for Holy Week, is intellectual and experiential. But what Jesus offers is a promise of participation.
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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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There is some serious material in the gospel narrative before we get to John 14 this week that informs what we’re reading.
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In the Passion, we receive a story of innocence murdered. But that story’s foundation is all so much temptation.
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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.