Hosanna!
This Sunday, the church marks the beginning of Jesus’ last week before his crucifixion and glorious resurrection with what we call “the triumphal entry” amid […]
Palm Sunday
Poem for Palm Sunday
PALM SUNDAY by Roland De Vries hymn Time-pressed sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic rocks Burst with anticipation that, human voices stayed, Their moment of unlocked […]
Mary’s Palm Sunday
This wasn’t how she had imagined it. She had imagined this day or a day like today. A day of arrival. A procession. Acclaim. He […]
Palms and Politics
The story of Holy Week begins with a political act. What do we do? We do what we do with Luke’s story of Jesus’ birth, a story that heralds a great social upheaval. We give the story to the children.
Palm Sunday Contained
Every Lent feels different. Perhaps it is the practises we take on or readings from a different book. The patterns of lunchtime services or quiet […]
The 411 on Holy Week Words
(Warning: The content about crucifixion is for mature audiences.) benedictus qui venit! Huh? I was in an airport recently and overheard people talking in a […]
If anyone asks…
Jesus was used to questions by now. If anyone asks… He sounds like a parent here – assuming that there is going to be a question and trying to solve it before trouble rears its head. The story ends with him responding to the Pharisees, as if their demand was a question, though it palpably wasn’t.
Face to face
Palm Sunday. The beginning of Holy Week – the week that saw a fickle crowd shout, “Hosanna!” on Day 1, and five days later, “Crucify!” […]
Urbanity
Yesterday at church, we were celebrating together. The service started with palms, of course. The children gathered in the Session Room before the service, and I equipped them with the greenery.