{"id":23013,"date":"2014-04-14T15:43:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T19:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=23013"},"modified":"2014-04-14T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T19:43:25","slug":"cloak-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/04\/cloak-sunday.html","title":{"rendered":"Cloak Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"The service at my church yesterday focused on \u201cCloak Sunday.\u201d Although it is \u201cPalm Sunday,\u201d the reading was from Luke\u2019s Gospel, which has people strewing clothing<\/em> before Jesus rather than palm branches. It is interesting to ask whether Luke was aware that the use of palms in the manner depicted would more naturally suggest a different feast than Passover, namely Sukkot \u2013 and whether in the transmission of the story, we have an event from another time and context being relocated so as to occur on the one occasion during which it would fit in the Synoptics, namely Jesus\u2019 one narrated visit to Jerusalem on Passover, when he was arrested and crucified. But if so, then the question of why the event is connected with Passover in John<\/a>, where it need not have been, arises. Perhaps this is evidence that John knew Mark?<\/p>\n

To my disappointment, we didn\u2019t integrate into the service my reworking of Toto\u2019s \u201cRosanna\u201d with new lyrics appropriate to the occasion, and now entitled \u201cHosanna.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0OK, I\u2019m not really disappointed, as I\u2019m still not sure how well it would have worked. But the keyboard solo would have been fun!<\/p>\n

We also watched the Salt Project video \u201cResurrection.\u201d Here is the trailer:<\/p>\n