PALM SUNDAY, THE PROCESSION
Mark 11:1-10Those preceding him as well as those following
kept crying out: “Hosanna!”
Look!
Before
and behind,
crying, “Hosanna,
hosanna in the highest.”
The crowds spread their cloaks,
cut down leafy branches from the fields,
making the way for you to enter Jerusalem.
Hosanna! Jesus of Nazareth, eternal joy.
Our God, walking along beside us,
our Lord who leads us to grace,
our king crowned with thorns,
our beloved, our hero,
loving us all the
way to the
cross.
Come into our
hearts!
Hosanna!
THE GOSPEL
Mark 14:1-15:47 or 15:1-39A woman came with an alabaster jar of perfumed oil, costly genuine spikenard. She broke the alabaster jar and poured it on his head.
In
she rushed.
Listening to her heart,
she broke the jar, poured the oil
out upon Jesus.
He did not shield his face from pounding and spitting,
nor answer when they covered his eyes
and jeered, “Who struck you?’’
But instead he quickly,
emptied himself,
for he so
loved
the world.
Christ,
teach us to pour out
everything
but
you.
THE FIRST READING
Jeremiah 31:31-34
He opens my ear that I may hear.
Sunrise to sunset, open our eyes
that we may see you
in all things.
Jeremiah, Rutilio Grande, Romero and Dorothy Day:
morning after morning, you
opened their
eyes.
Let us too hear the cry of the poor.
And let us speak on
their behalf.
Open
our hearts
that we may love you,
holding nothing back, nothing at all.
THE SECOND READING
Hebrews 5:7-9
Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave
Christ,
You emptied yourself.
No self-concern,
no turning
back.
Teach us to love this way.
Filled with your Spirit,
let us surrender
into your
love.
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