Beginning of Holy Week
Well today is Palm Sunday, and the beginning of the week where we remember Christ’s entry into the passion narrative, of Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem that leads to his powerlessness and crucifixion. Today, we remember the success of the beginning, of crowds shouting Hosanna – ‘Save Me’ to the King of Kings. They think they are getting a political King who will throw out the Romans, they misunderstand God’s intentions of a God of atonement and not of political might. I offer an Anonymous poem:
will I lay my cloak before you,
when they arrest you on olive mountain,
or pull it tighter around me,
fading into the ranks of the deserters;
will I shout
‘Blessed is the one who comes
in the name of the Lord!’
when they parade you
before the authorities,
or will I tell any one – and every one – around me
I never met you in my life;
will I lay my palm branches at your feet,
as they march you to Calvary,
or use them to put more stripes
on your bloody back;
will I run behind you
when they carry you to the tomb,
or turn away
as the ashes of my hopes
are rubbed into the
wounds in my heart?
Author Unknown
