St. Aidan's Anglican Church, Kansas City - Weekly Talks

Passion Sunday: The Triumphal Entry -- Today we enter the holy city with Jesus and his disciples. We are coming to Holy Week. Given the events of Good Friday, the death of Jesus, why is today called the triumphal entry? Why did Jesus choose to voluntarily consent to suffer such psychological and physical torture at the hands of his enemies? C.S. Lewis says that he came as a weak, unassuming baby, voluntarily emptying himself of attributes of divinity (Phil 2 reading today)because he was being snuck behind enemy lines, into a dysfunctional, fallen world. And, therefore, as he began to emerge, he attracted opposition. We see the climax of this opposition to God’s covert operation in the Passion narrative. In reflecting on the success of this operation, God’s mission to redeem and restore fallen creation in the person of Jesus, Paul says that “we speak a wisdom (in Christ crucified), a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood