Sermon for Palm Sunday by our Canon Theologian

The whole affair seems contradictory. And today's liturgy mirrors precisely that contradiction. We sing that glorious and triumphal ninth-century hymn, "All glory, laud and honour to thee redeemer King." We bless and distribute the branches of palm, the symbols of his kingship; and then we read the Passion according to St. Matthew - that cruel and violent story of the condemnation of the just and innocent.

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Comments

[Susan]

Umm. I'm sure Fr. Crouse preached for more than four sentences? Or that there is a pithier extract than this if that is all you intended to post? I've clicked on everything in sight and still just come up with this little blurb.

[Administrator]

My mistake. Thank you for pointing it out: I would have missed it otherwise. It's corrected now.