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Sunday Reflection (April 5, 2020)

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The great contrast of Palm-Passion Sunday is the glorious, jubilant entrance with Jesus leaving Jerusalem to Golgotha bearing the cross a few days later. The crowd that had joyously received him ridiculed and rejected him viciously as he bore the cross to Calvary. The disciples flee but his mother and a few other women watch from a distance.

Jesus is hoisted high between heaven and earth. Although shamed by humankind, God is not ashamed of the perseverance and faithfulness of his beloved Son. Jesus refused to act in violence and revenge. Jesus refused to employ divine power to crush those crucifying him. Jesus offered diving forgiveness on his way to the cross with these words, “Father forgive them. They know not what they do.” God’s wisdom overcame human power and the evil misuse of power.

Prayer for the Week (April 5-April 11)

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Let us pray to God who sent us Jesus to reveal God’s love to us:  Lord Jesus, though mocked and derided, you were not put to shame; though beaten and pat upon, you were not disgraced; though innocent and unjustly crucified, you, the Son of God, have been vindicated by your sinless life and exalted to the right hand of power. As we gather to remember your suffering, fill us with your Spirit, conform our thoughts to yours, and teach us your ways so that the world might see in your body, the church, your ongoing ministry of redeeming grace toward this fallen, spent, and weary world.  Amen.

(Lightning from the East, alt.)