Holy Week Begins -- Where Are You?

The waving of palms and the hurling of insults collide existentially and liturgically.

Today is The Sunday of The Passion. Corporate worship begins with the gospel account of the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem and quickly moves to Arrest and Crucifixion-- How soon accolades mutate into curses!

Where are you this day? Where would you be, how would you be, if you had witnessed those events that forcefully unfolded? That is, rather than being able to worship on this day with the faith knowledge already in hand and in heart that this Jesus would be raised from the dead, what might you be going through were you there when they crucified him? You would not have yet come to faith-- at best, you might have been a trusting follower. To you, what would have just happened?

The Sunday of The Passion prepares us for Triduum-- Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter. However, do not rush. Walk the walk "as if" on this day you do not yet have the faith to call it Christ's Passion-- you might see some things in a different light.

Read the Gospel According to Mark 14:1-15:47.
Read Psalm 31:9-16 "as if" your own words, having witnessed the event.