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SUMMARY:Liturgy of Palm Sunday
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DESCRIPTION:We begin the Holy Week with Palm Sunday\, and the Gospels tell
  us that the people spread their palm branches or their cloaks on the grou
 nd as Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey.\n\nThis is the symbol the Chu
 rch has taken up for our liturgical actions\, and is what gives the day it
 s name.  Palms\, though\, were tricky to get hold of in northern and weste
 rn Europe\, so branches of whatever could be found were used: box\, willow
 \, yew\, that sort of thing.  And we see in this a central truth of our Ho
 ly Week observance: that we’re not simply re-enacting an historical even
 t when we do this\; we’re not trying to recreate this scene frame for fr
 ame.  Rather we are bringing Jerusalem to us\, entering into the drama as 
 if it were happening in Ilkley\, today\, with whatever we have to hand.\n\
 nAfter the blessing of palms and the Palm Gospel\, we go in our own proces
 sion through the grounds and into the church\, to ‘enter the city’ as 
 Jesus did.  And we sing our ‘hosannas\,’ just like all those gathered 
 around Jesus.\n\nIt’s the triumphal entry into the city that forms the l
 iturgical focus of the day.  But we also hear a dramatic reading of the fu
 ll Passion account\; this year from St Matthew’s Gospel.  And it’s thi
 s juxtaposition of triumph and celebration\, with death and despair\, that
  makes it such a rich beginning to Holy Week.  We’re brought into the my
 stery of the Passion that will continue to unfold before us over the week\
 ; and we see in the interplay between cross and resurrection that we are t
 aken out of our neat sense of linear time\, and into the extra dimensions 
 of God’s time.  We’re not ‘waiting’ for Christ to be crucified\, l
 ater in the week\; the cross is now.  Just as Easter is now\, as each Sund
 ay of the year reminds us.  All the events of Holy Week take place in the 
 light of the Resurrection.\n\nWe begin with Jesus the King riding into Jer
 usalem in royal procession\; in the Passion Gospel we hear of him dressed 
 up in royal robes to mock him.  And so the Holy Week begins.
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LOCATION:St Margaret's\, Ilkley
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