Study of the Readings
Ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
Wonder Woman, better than the Amazons, could take on armies of marauders. But not Jesus. I would have rewritten the script.
John J. Pilch
Cultural Insights into the Passion
As the early followers of Jesus reflected upon his suffering and death, they resorted to the Hebrew Bible for insight. This was the only Scripture they knew.
If today’s procession and passion are considered together, in the
one Jesus appears as sublime and glorious, in the other as lowly and
suffering. The procession makes us think of the honor reserved for a
king, whereas the passion shows us the punishment due to a thief.
Reginald H. Fuller
The passion and death of Christ are not isolated events but of a piece with his whole ministry. The early Church was right in seeing that the servant songs came to rest in the passion and death of its Lord.