April 13, 8:45 am & 11:00 am
The Liturgy for the Sunday of the Passion, or Palm Sunday, kicks off Holy Week. The service is about Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem as King of kings and Lord of lords. The crowds go wild! Their Messiah has arrived. Yet Jesus knows that the Messiah they laud is the one they will turn on and kill. His Lordship is not about ruling the world, it is about caring for the eternal human soul. The euphoria of Palm Sunday leaves us feeling good. That is the point of the spiritual exercise of Holy Week; we must start high, so we can go low, and then ascend even higher. It is a pattern of spiritual transformation. It all begins on the top of the Mount of Olives with Jesus on a donkey heading down into Jerusalem.
