PALM SUNDAY, THE PROCESSION
Mark 11:1-10Those preceding him as well as those following kept crying out: “Hosanna!”
Look!
Before and after,
the crowds spread their cloaks,
and crying, “Hosanna!
Hosanna
in the highest”!
They cut down
leafy branches from the fields,
making the way for him 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!
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. … “She has anticipated anointing my body for burial.”
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
Isaiah 50:4-7
All who see me scoff at me; they mock me with parted lips.
Jeremiah,
Rutilio Grande, Romero, Dorothy Day:
morning after morning, you
opened their
eyes.
Sunrise to sunset, open our eyes too!
that we may see you
in all things.
Let us also hear the cry of the poor.
All trapped in war and violence;
the sick; the children starving;
and the cry of the planet.
Let us speak and act
on their behalf.
Open
our hearts
that we may love you,
holding nothing back, nothing at all.
