Do Jack Purcell Stretch

APRIL 17, 2011. Palm Sunday opens Holy Week solemnly, with the memory of the Palms and the Passion, the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and the liturgy of the word evokes the Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark. On this day
intersect the two liturgical traditions that have led to this conclusion: the cheerful, crowded, festive liturgy of the Mother Church of the Holy City, which becomes mimesis, imitation of what Jesus did in Jerusalem, and the stark memory-history-of Passion marking the liturgy of Rome. Liturgy of Jerusalem and Rome, together in our celebration, with a longing that can not fail to be updated. We
in spirit to Jerusalem, ascended the Mount of Olives to call at the chapel of Bethpage, a gesture reminiscent of Jesus prophetic gesture, which comes as a peaceful king, Messiah acclaimed first and subsequently sentenced to meet in all the prophecies.
For a moment, people have revived the hope and with it, openly and without subterfuge, to the One who came in the name of the Lord. At least I understand the simplest, the disciples and the people who accompanied Jesus as a King.
San Lucas does not speak of olives and palms, but people who were carpeting the road with his clothes, and received a king, people shouting, "Blessed is he who comes as king in the name of the Lord. Peace in heaven and glory above. "
In the liturgy of Rome, on the other hand, we anticipate the Passion and the proclamation of the mystery with a great contrast between the way of Christ's triumphant Palm Sunday and the Via Crucis of the Holy Days.
however, are the last words of Jesus on the tree a new seed which should push the paddle evangelist of the Church in the world.
"Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." This is the Gospel, this, the new news, the contents of the New Evangelization. From a paradox, this world that seems so self-contained, requires that you announce the mystery of the weakness of our God, which demonstrates the culmination of his love. As announced early Christians with these lengthy and detailed accounts of Jesus' Passion.
was proclaiming the love of a God coming down with us to the abyss of what has no sense of sin and death, the absurd cry of Jesus in his abandonment and extreme confidence. It was an announcement to the pagan world with the more realistic as he could measure the power of the Resurrection.
The Liturgy of the Palms expects this Sunday, called Pascua Florida, the Triumph of the Resurrection, while the reading of the Passion invites us to enter consciously into the Holy Week of the Passion of Christ glorious and loving the Lord. (ACI).