Palm Sunday -- Monroe, 2021
Palm Sunday: St. Paul's, Monroe March 28, 2021 Day like no other There is no other Sunday in the year like today. Well, I guess we could say that about any Sunday. Or about any day, for that matter. I do remind myself regularly, that today is all we've got to work with. But the thing that makes this day extraordinary in the church is the joining of two very different narratives. One is an exuberant account of a triumphal entry into a city full of people. From the point of view of the main character it must have felt rewarding in some sense. But the main character was a very sensitive and insightful man. He also knew – did it let it on with those around him? He let them know the following Thursday. Did his behavior over the course of this week communicate the foreboding of this week of preparations for the Passover? He also knew the other side of this seemingly triumphal entry into Jerusalem. It would be the place of his condemnation and execution. The paradox We generally like ...