Palm Sunday (Year A) - Matt 21: 1-11

Daily Gospel Exegesis

Logical Bible Study

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 1 April 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Note: At the Palm Sunday Mass, there are 2 different gospel readings - one 'Palm Sunday' gospel which is read as part of the entrance procession, and one 'Passion' gospel which is read at the normal gospel time. This episode will focus on the Palm Sunday gospel.

Matthew 21: 1-11 - 'Blessings on he who comes in the name of the Lord!'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 559 (in 'Jesus' Messianic Entrance into Jerusalem') - How will Jerusalem welcome her Messiah? Although Jesus had always refused popular attempts to make him king, he chooses the time and prepares the details for his messianic entry into the city of "his father David". Acclaimed as son of David, as the one who brings salvation (Hosanna means "Save!" or "Give salvation!"), the "King of glory" enters his City "riding on an ass". Jesus conquers the Daughter of Zion, a figure of his Church, neither by ruse nor by violence, but by the humility that bears witness to the truth. and so the subjects of his kingdom on that day are children and God's poor, who acclaim him as had the angels when they announced him to the shepherds. Their acclamation, "Blessed be he who comes in the name of the Lord", is taken up by the Church in the Sanctus of the Eucharistic liturgy that introduces the memorial of the Lord's Passover.

- 439 (in 'Christ') - Many Jews and even certain Gentiles who shared their hope recognized in Jesus the fundamental attributes of the messianic "Son of David", promised by God to Israel. Jesus accepted his rightful title of Messiah, though with some reserve because it was understood by some of his contemporaries in too human a sense, as essentially political.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to Logical Bible Study. As always, in this podcast, we take a look at the gospel reading from today's Mass, and we want to give you the tools to help you
0:21.8	work out what the original author was trying to communicate to their original audience.
0:27.7	So we're going to attempt to provide an exegesis of the literal sense of the text.
0:34.5	And today we're looking at Matthew chapter 21, verse 1 to 11.
0:39.2	Now, this is the Palm Sunday reading, and it's worth emphasizing that at Palm Sunday,
0:44.3	there's actually two gospel readings.
0:46.3	There's one shorter gospel reading during the entrance procession of the Mass, and that's
0:51.7	the one we're going to look at.
0:53.0	That's Matthew Chapter 21. And then later in the Mass, it's that really long passion of the Mass, and that's the one we're going to look at. That's Matthew chapter 21.
0:54.8	And then later in the Mass, it's that really long passion of the Lord gospel reading where
0:59.6	there's people playing different parts reading the gospel, and that goes on for quite a while.
1:04.2	That's a very long reading. So we're doing the shorter reading for Palm Sunday from Matthew
1:09.2	Chapter 21.
1:18.6	When they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Beth Fage to the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples saying to them,
1:22.6	Go into the village facing you, and immediately you will find an ass-tide and a cult with her, untie them
1:30.3	and bring them to me.
1:32.3	If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, the Lord has need of them, and he will send
1:39.9	them immediately.
1:41.9	This took place to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet, saying, tell the daughter of
1:47.9	Zion, behold, your king is coming to you, humble and mounted on an ass, and on a colt,
1:54.4	the fall of an ass.
1:56.9	The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them.
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