HOLY WEEK AT THE MONASTERY THE SUNDAY OF THE PASSION: PALM SUNDAY March 24, 2024 T HE S OCIETY OF S AINT J OHN THE EVANGELIST 980 Memorial Drive Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 617.876.3037 www.SSJE.org
The Passion Narratives and Anti-Semitism
It is now widely recognized that proclamation and preaching of the gospel accounts of Jesus’s passion were an important element in the centuries of anti-Semitism in Christian Europe that culminated in the Holocaust.1 A present area for concern is the portrayal of Judaism and the Jewish people in Christian liturgical use. The term “the Jews” is anachronistic when used to describe the Israelite people and religion at the time of Jesus. “The Jews” is also a mistranslation of the Greek “oi Ioudaioi,” which is more accurately rendered “the Judeans.”
2 Mark’s gospel portrays Jesus’s death as brought about through the collusion of elements in the Judean religious authority contemptuous of a “Galilean” messiah, and of the Roman occupation administration’s leadership.3 Mark does not place responsibility for Jesus’ execution on the entire “Jewish” people of the time nor on their descendants.
1 Philip S. Kaufman, The Beloved Disciple: Witness Against Anti-Semitism, Liturgical Press, 1991.
2 Paul Liben, “Mistranslation and the Holocaust,” The Jerusalem Post, 27 April 2014.
3 Richard A. Horsley, The Gospel According to Mark, in The New Oxford Annotated Bible, fully revised fourth edition, Oxford, 2010.
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The Liturgy of the Palms
Prelude Prelude on “Valet will ich der geben” Margaretha Christina de Jong
A Palm Sunday Processional, Op. 6, No. 5 Jan Bender
Pueri Hebræorum, Op. 251 Vidas Pinkevičius (antiphon for the distribution of the palms)
Opening Anthem Hosanna filio David (Hosanna to the Son of David)
Collect
The Holy Gospel Mark 11:1-11
The Blessing over the Branches
Presider The Lord be with you.
People And also with you.
Presider Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People It is right to give God thanks and praise.
The Presider continues with the Blessing and at the conclusion, all sing, Amen.
As the branches are distributed, the Schola sings Psalm 118. The congregation is invited to join in the refrain:
When the distribution is finished:
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4 Procession Hymn All glory, laud, and honor Hymnal 154
The Holy Eucharist
Collect of the Day
First Reading
LITURGY OF THE WORD
Isaiah 50:4-9a
Gradual: Psalm 31:9–16 BCP, p. 623
Second Reading Philippians 2:5-11
Anthem Christus factus est (Christ became obedient)
The Passion Gospel Mark 14:1 15:47
The customary responses before and after the Gospel are omitted. All are seated for the first part of the Passion. All stand when the Narrator says, “And they brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha.” All kneel when the Narrator says, “Then Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last.”
The Sermon
The Prayers of the People
The Peace
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Offertory Hymn
THE HOLY COMMUNION
My song is love unknown Hymnal 458
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The Great Thanksgiving
Sanctus
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Setting: From Missa aquilae, Carson Cooman © 2023 Carson Cooman.
The Lord’s Prayer
Setting: Ambrosian chant; adapt. Mason Martens (b. 1933); adapt. SSJE
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Hymnal
S 148, alt.
Invitation to Communion
A Note about Holy Communion
Please refrain from intinction (dipping the Bread into the Chalice). If you wish to abstain from receiving from the Chalice, remember that the Church catholic has always taught that the fullness of the Sacrament is received even when only one form is received.
Please indicate to the Brother administering Bread at Holy Communion if you require a Gluten-Free host.
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Fraction Anthem Jesus, Lamb of God
Setting: From Missa aquilae, Carson Cooman © 2023 Carson Cooman.
10 Post-Communion Hymn Alone thou goest forth, O Lord Hymnal 164
Prayer after Communion
Presider God our help and strength,
People you satisfy our hunger with this eucharistic food. Strengthen our faith, that through the death and resurrection of your Son, we may be led to salvation, for he is Lord now and for ever. Amen.
Prayer over the People and Dismissal
Postlude Chorale Prelude on “O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden” Tamsin Jones
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Br. Geoffrey Tristram, Presider & Preacher
Br. Curtis Almquist, Deacon
Br. Lucas Hall, Subdeacon
Mr. Carson Cooman, Monastery Organist
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The Monastery as Sanctuary
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