Putting Jesus in a Cupboard? - Palm Sunday - 2024

Today we celebrate, if that is the word, Palm Sunday - a story of triumph, but a triumph that foreshadows terrible suffering to come. As we are invited to question the sincerity or at least the longevity of the people’s devotion to Jesus - so we are also challenged to examine our own response to him.
And as we experience troubling days in our world, we might take time to reflect on how the Holy Week journey now speaks to us in new and different ways, of joy and sadness, of hope and despair, laughter and tears, life and death, so often intermingled, the one intertwined with the other, inseparable and indivisible. So it is with life, so too with our journey of faith over the next few days.
Part of the Church of Ireland, St Nicholas Church, Adare and its fellow churches teaches and ministers within the progressive Christianity tradition, with influences from the scholars who built on the work of the Jesus Seminar.It seeks to be a church that is welcoming and inclusive, affirming and open in its liberal theology; and whilst we don’t claim to have all the answers, we are most certainly committed to ‘living the questions’. We have influences of Celtic spirituality in our worship and view of the natural world, living as we do in the beauty of County Limerick.
The Church of Ireland also forms part of the Anglican communion which is an association of Anglican churches from 38 provinces, including the Church of England, the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Church in Wales, the Episcopal Church in the USA (otherwise known as the Episcopalians) and churches across the globe. With 80 million members, it is the third largest Christian body in the world, after the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches.
Organ music: 'Ride on Ride on in Majesty'
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