Why read the passion twice?

[EricCKS]

In bible study this morning the question was ask “Why read the Passion on Palm Sunday and then again during Holy Week?”

Anyone know?

Thanks Eric

 

[JMJ_Theresa]

EricCKS:

In bible study this morning the question was ask “Why read the Passion on Palm Sunday and then again during Holy Week?”

Anyone know?

Thanks Eric

I’m just guessing, but Sunday is a day of obligation and none of the Holy Week services are.

 

[frommi]

The Good Friday Passion is always from St John. It provides us with a very different Jesus than the other 3 Gospels, which are read in the 3 year cycle on Passion Sunday.

It’s the story of the ‘great contridiction’, how Jesus had to die to rise…

 

[Psalm45_9]

Right up until the 1950’s all four of the passion accounts were read during Holy Week. St. Matthew’s on Palm Sunday, St. Mark’s on Tuesday of Holy Week, St. Luke’s on Spy Wedensday, and St. John’s on Good Friday. Since then the three synopotic gospels are rotated each year on Passion (Palm) Sunday. St. John’s is still read only on Good Friday.

 

[jbuck919]

Psalm45:9:

Right up until the 1950’s all four of the passion accounts were read during Holy Week. St. Matthew’s on Palm Sunday, St. Mark’s on Tuesday of Holy Week, St. Luke’s on Spy Wedensday, and St. John’s on Good Friday. Since then the three synopotic gospels are rotated each year on Passion (Palm) Sunday. St. John’s is still read only on Good Friday.

Change that to the late 1960s and you are right. The innovation came only with the then new three-year lectionary.