Blue Truck, Red State: Palm Sunday, 2016: Ride On, Ride On in Majesty

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Palm Sunday, 2016: Ride On, Ride On in Majesty

The Entry into Jerusalem, Pietro Lorenzetti, 1320.

As performed by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge:

4 comments:

Tim said...: Isn't it good that in this God-forsaken age, traditions like this still persist? Just sayin'.; March 20, 2016 at 2:45 PM
Russ Manley said...: Well yes - there's something lovely and reassuring about the KCC services, which is as close as I get to church these days.; March 20, 2016 at 8:59 PM
Davis said...: The Lorenzetti is stunning as is the hymn singing at Kings! Have a good Holy Week, Russ.; March 21, 2016 at 9:05 AM
Russ Manley said...: It's a splendid work, isn't it? All good wishes to you in return, Davis.; March 21, 2016 at 7:50 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu