The Tew Benefice

Duties

Sacristan Lizz Mollington; Reader Jeremy Treglown;

Intercessions Rachel Mitchinson; Sidesperson Lizz M; Offertory R & J Mitchinson; Chalice Tom Wesson.

Hymns NEH

509 All Glory Laud and Honour ST THEODULPH

511 Ride on, ride on in Majesty WINCHESTER

86   My Song is love unknown -omit vs 4 & 6 LOVE UNKNOWN

507 Lent Prose ATTENDE

83   Glory be to Jesus CASWALL

Note: No Gloria in Lent

Introduction

On Palm Sunday the Church commemorates Our Lord’s entry into Jerusalem to accomplish his saving work by dying and rising again. The service has two distinctive features, in addition to the Eucharist; the Palm Procession and Passion Gospel. The Service starts with an act of praise to Christ the King, but the mood changes as we recall the cost of that triumph; we hear the story of Christ’s Passion; the hymns become more reflective as we focus on the beginning of Holy Week.

Collect

Almighty and everlasting God,

who in your tender love towards the human race

sent your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ

to take upon him our flesh

and to suffer death upon the cross:

grant that we may follow the example of his patience and humility,

and also be made partakers of his resurrection;

through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,

who is alive and reigns with you,

in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, now and for ever.

Post Communion

Lord Jesus Christ

you humbled yourself in taking the form of a servant,

and in obedience died on the cross for our salvation:

give us the mind to follow you

and to proclaim you as Lord and King,

to the glory of God the Father.

LITURGY OF THE PALMS Palms distributed before the service starts

Jesus and His disciples approach Jerusalem for the celebration ofthe Feast of the Passover. The last chapter of Jesus’ earthly life begins. It is obvious that the dramatic way He chooses to enter the city is planned: He is making a deliberate Messianic claim offering himself as the Anointed One of God – and the crowd clearly recognize it from their scriptures, in the book of the prophet Zechariah. ‘Rejoice greatly, … Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey.’

Gospel for the Liturgy of the Palms:

Matthew 21:1-11

When they had come near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, ²saying to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me. ³If anyone says anything to you, just say this, ‘The Lord needs them.’ And he will send them immediately.” ⁴This took place to fulfil what had been spoken through the prophet, saying, ⁵“Tell the daughter of Zion, Look, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.” ⁶The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them; ⁷they brought the donkey and the colt, and put their cloaks on them, and he sat on them. ⁸A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. ⁹The crowds that went ahead of him and that followed were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!” ¹⁰When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in turmoil, asking, “Who is this?” ¹¹The crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee.”

In this letter St. Paul gives us some of his most profound insights using words that, particularly in the original Greek, are strikingly vivid as he describes Christ’s sacrifice of laying aside His godhead and becoming human. The prevailing view of modern scholarship is that these verses may derive from an early Christian creed or ‘hymn’.

Epistle:

Philippians 2: 5 – 11

⁵ Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
⁶ who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited,
⁷ but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human   form,
⁸ he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death – even death on a cross.
⁹ Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,
¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

¹¹ and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

PASSION GOSPEL: Matthew 26:36 – 27:54

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