Posts tagged with ‘Sunday of the Passion/Palm Sunday’

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April 14, 2019 – Sunday of the Passion/Palm Sunday

by Melissa VanTassell

    The voice of the suffering savior, Jesus, can be heard in the prophet Isaiah’s words and the pleading of the psalm. We are invited into the agony of our Lord in the extended reading of the story of Jesus’ passion. In the second reading, we who have put on Christ in holy baptism are urged […]

    March 25, 2018 – Sunday of the Passion, Palm Sunday

    by Melissa VanTassell

      The first and second readings and psalm are the same this Sunday every year: Christ emptying himself of divine power and protection, willingly becoming vulnerable to those who put him to death. With Christ we lament his suffering and all human suffering, but expect God’s final vindication. Mark’s passion story begins with an unnamed woman […]

      Sunday, March 20, 2016 – Sunday of the Passion/Palm Sunday

      by Melissa VanTassell

        The voice of the suffering savior, Jesus, can be heard in the prophet Isaiah’s words and the pleading of the psalm. We are invited into the agony of our Lord in the extended reading of the story of Jesus’ passion. In the second reading, we who have put on Christ in holy baptism are urged […]