Sixth Sunday of Lent - Year A
Readings
Psalm blessing and procession readings
Matthew 21:1-11 - Jesus sends the disciples ahead to Jerusalem to get a donkey and a colt for him. Jesus rides on it into Jerusalem, greeted by the people spreading their garments on the road, waving palms and singing "Hosanna to the Son of David ..."
Psalm 23: The Lord is the earth and its fullness / who shall climb the mountain of the Lord
Psalm 46: All people clap your hands / He subdues peoples under us
Mass readings
First: Isaiah 50: 4-5 - The Lord has given me a disciples tongue ... I offered my back to those who struck me.
Psalm: 21 - My God, why have you forsaken me / All who see me deride me / Dogs have surrounded me / They divided my clothing among them.
Second: Philippians 2:6-11 - His state was divine yet Christ Jesus ... was humbler yet, even to accepting death on a cross. But God raised him high.
Gospel: Matthew 26:14 - 27:66, - The Passion, from Judas making a deal with the cheif priests to betray Jesus to them, through to Joseph of Arimathea being given Jesus body, and the Pharisees getting permission to put a special guard at the tomb.
Themes
The paradox: acclaiming Jesus as king, and one week later putting him to death.
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Copyright information
Picture: "King Jesus riding into Jerusalem (Procession of the patriarch on the ass)," by Vyacheslav Schwarz (1838–1869), in Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Public Domain.
