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Palm Sunday Scripture:
Notes from Fr. Cathie Caimano’s sermon:
Today we take our part
We walk in procession, wave our palms, say ‘Hosanna!” (God save us)
We cheer for Jesus, we betray him, we deny him, we shout for him to be crucified. We realize he really is the son of God.
Today, and all through Holy Week, we walk through the story again. With our whole bodies, our whole selves.
Egeria is a Spanish woman who lived in the late 380s
She could have been a nun or a noblewoman - we don’t know
She went from Spain to Jerusalem on a 3 year pilgrimage to Jerusalem to see how Christians spent Holy Week. And she wrote about it (incidentally, this is one of the first published works from a woman)
Pilgrims poured into the city and went from one place to another where Jesus had been - the cave where Jesus taught, a cathedral built by Constantine, Jesus’ tomb.
They prayed and sang, they wept, they shouted. They participated with their whole selves. Anamnesis. Living remembrance.
This is one reason we know that the Christian story is true
it’s not just Scripture - the Bible is important, but it’s not God.
It points us towards God.
Liturgy - how we worship - does the same.
We come back to these places and walk through these stories, and take our parts, again and again.
Ever since Jesus was there in person.
Egeria’s writings were disseminated throughout the Christian world
And throughout Christian history
All the way to us
We’ve been walking through Holy Week - remembering with our lives
Ever since the first Christians did
Ever since the first crowds followed Jesus.
Today, we take our part
Inhabiting all the ways we react to Jesus…
Hosanna’ (God save us)
‘Surely I will not betray you’
‘I do not know the man’
‘Crucify him’
‘He saved others, he cannot save himself’’
‘Truly, this man was the Son of God’
And Jesus keeps going forward, towards his destiny. Towards our salvation.
The only Good News we get today is that it’s only the first day of the week
Join us for the Virtual Vigil at the Altar of Repose through Trexo - Maundy Thursday evening into Good Friday morning…
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