A Palm Sunday Homily
... No one can make us look on the cross. No one can force us to make the trip up Golgotha.
But there’s just one problem. If we want to stay at the party, we do so alone – Jesus has left. Jesus has left the party ...
Read the rest of my Palm Sunday reflection: "The Party & The Passion"
5 comments:
Good party/passion. Jesus has left the party. I did parade/passion in a slightly different perspective.
I really like this. and the question that haunts is: do we really want to follow Jesus? and can we?
prayers and blessings on your Holy Week.
What a great sermon. Wow.
I am reminded of a line I once heard in a movie, "everybody wants to go to heaven, nobody wants to die."
As Diane says - do we really want to follow and then the important follow up... can we? Will we?
I think that many of us want to- but, that doesn't mean we do it.
Our pastor gave a great sermon for Palm Sunday, but also added that we shouldn't show up to "get" something- like palms or communion, but we come to give, to share. What do we take into the world with us.
He also said something about how from Thursday to our Saturday Vigil is one long liturgy with pauses and that to show up for just the end is... well like you said.
I hope that doesn't make him sound harsh, he is a gentle and good man with a deep and wise heart. He wants us to be fed and to feed.
Please know that I send you my prayers and wishes for many blessings this week.
I like the comment "No one can make us look on the cross. No one can force us to make the trip up Golgotha." How true, and how true that if we want to follow Jesus we must look on the cross, for that is where salvation is. Thanks for the sermon.
Thanks all. I was very pleased with this sermon, and felt that it was well received. Our midweek Lenten program was entitled "In the Footsteps of Jesus", so the question of will we follow wherever those footsteps lead - even if it is to death - was in line with the rest what we had been doing for six weeks. Indeed, I think the question asked on Palm Sunday, in preparation for Holy Week, is the time that that question matters most.
Fran, I would not call that harsh. I would call it honest. Of course it all depends on delivery - as with any sermon. It is easy (and very self-satisfying) to move from speaking honestly to chastizing and finger wagging. Then it becomes a problem. It does not sound as though your priest handled it in that way.
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