Sunday of the Passion/Palm Sunday: April 9, 2017

Sunday of the Passion/Palm Sunday

April 9, 2017

Worship: 8:00 am and 10:45 am

Mt. 21:1-11; Is. 50:4-9a; Ps. 31:9-16;Phil. 2:5-11;

Mt. 26:14—27:66

Commemoration of Dietrich Bonhoeffer* (see last pages)

Palm Sunday

Now to the gate of my Jerusalem,

The seething holy city of my heart,

The Saviour comes. But will I welcome him?

Oh crowds of easy feelings make a start;

They raise their hands, get caught up in the singing,

And think the battle won. Too soon they'll find

The challenge, the reversal he is bringing

Changes their tune. I know what lies behind

The surface flourish that so quickly fades;

Self-interest, and fearful guardedness,

The hardness of the heart, its barricades,

And at the core, the dreadful emptiness

Of a perverted temple. Jesus come

Break my resistance and make me your home.

Malcolm Guite (Sounding the Seasons, p. 32)

·       Listen to either the Matthäuspassion or the Johannespassion by Johann Sebastian Bach.                      St. Matthew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm1os4VzTgA

               St. John:         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1HmxBhRgqc