This week’s Gospel message for Sunday, March 28, 2021 is from Mark 11:1-10.
“Today we commemorate Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem. We do so with a note of melancholy, for we know that his arrival is also his entrance into the dark days of abandonment, agony, and death. However, we know that in the end God will triumph and sin, darkness, and even death will be defeated. Confident in Jesus’ redemptive power, we raise our voices in love and thanksgiving.” SOURCE: Pastoral Patterns, Spring 2021
Mark 11:1-10
When Jesus and his disciples drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately on entering it, you will find a colt tethered on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone should say to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ reply, ‘The Master has need of it and will send it back here at once.’” So they went off and found a colt tethered at a gate outside on the street, and they untied it. Some of the bystanders said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” They answered them just as Jesus had told them to, and they permitted them to do it. So they brought the colt to Jesus and put their cloaks over it. And he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields. Those preceding him as well as those following kept crying out:
“Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is
to come! Hosanna in the highest!”
DAILY READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday Isaiah 42:1-7; John 12:1-11
Tuesday Isaiah 49:1-6; John 13:21-33, 36-38
Wednesday Isaiah 50:4-9a; Matt 26:14-25
Thursday Exodus 12:1-8, 11-14; 1 Cor 11:23-26; John 13:1-15
Friday Isaiah 52:13−53:12; Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9; John 18:1−19:42
Saturday Gen 1:1−2:2; Gen 22:1-18; Exodus 14:15−15:1; Isaiah 54:5-14; Isaiah 55:1-11; Bar 3:9-15, 32−4:4; Ezek 36:16-17a, 18-28; Rom 6:3-11; Mark 16:1-7