Sunday, March 20, 2016 - Sunday of the Passion/Palm Sunday

Sunday, March 20, 2016 - Sunday of the Passion/Palm Sunday

Spring Equinox

Worship: 8 & 10:45 am

Readings: Luke 19:28-40; Is. 50:4-9a; Ps. 31:9-16; Phil. 2:5-11; Luke 22:14-23:56

Gospel Acclamation: Christ humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death - even death on a cross. Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name. (Philippians 2:8-9)

Impleta sunt, quæ concinit                 (That which the prophet-king of old

David fideli carmine                           hath in mysterious verse foretold

Dicendo nationibus                            is now accomplished, whilst we see

Regnavit a ligno Deus.                       God rule the nations from a tree.)

All down the windy woods, along the throbbing hedge,

And in the starting sedge,

Yea, in all choirs and places where they sing,

I hear its growing cadences that ring:

Noblest of the processionals of earth,

The great Vexilla Regis of the spring:

And topping the soft hill

With sudden joy of emerald fluttering,

Against the sky's bright edge

I see the mighty banners of the King…

…Lo! on these eager branches shall be hung

That Life of which the woods have ever sung;

Making themselves soft harps for the hand o' the rain

To whisper of his pain,

And 'neath the poignant bowing of the wind

Subdued to move,

Crying to all mankind

The secret of the sacrament of love.

Yea! from a Tree

God shall shine out at thee;

For this doth Nature grow,

To this the kingly banners forward go.

            Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), "March Music"