tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post5727145142746382007..comments2023-10-31T05:56:45.788-07:00Comments on LutheranChik's "L" Word Diary: Palm Sunday at Our PlaceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post-26397702951737650692009-04-08T12:02:00.000-07:002009-04-08T12:02:00.000-07:00We gather in the church hall for the "liturgy of t...We gather in the church hall for the "liturgy of the palms" then process out the door, down the sidewalk, and into the sanctuary for the rest of the service.<BR/><BR/>We always read the Passion in parts, not planted in the congregation. The readers come forward and stand across the front of the church while I read the narrator part from the pulpit. As for the "congregation" responses in the Passion, we don't have the people in the pews read those. I ask the people up front who have parts to read those parts as a group.Tom in Ontariohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12154434042794825551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post-65936933687166712182009-04-07T07:50:00.000-07:002009-04-07T07:50:00.000-07:00We've never had plants in the congregation, just p...We've never had plants in the congregation, just people in the front reading the actual Bible passages, but with a narrator and parts. Quite some years ago, the local art teacher put together a slide show of famous paintings of Holy Week, etc. and they were shown at the same time as the reading. That was amazing. <BR/><BR/>I just wonder about the audio/visual/kinetic Palms/processional. Isn't that what most people will remember rather than the whole story?LoieJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977264499770654307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post-51907656124882537402009-04-07T07:40:00.000-07:002009-04-07T07:40:00.000-07:00I was glad that we dumped the responsive "dramatic...I was glad that we dumped the responsive "dramatic" readings -- the "Hosannas" and "Crucify hims," the planted actors in the congregation, etc. It's just so stagey, and as you note I'm not sure that that at all brings the story to life for anyone. (If anything I suspect it makes worshippers, particularly visitors, spend the morning thinking, "Please, God, don't let them assign me a 'job' in this service.") <BR/><BR/>Interestingly, at our meeting last night one of our committee members said she was so moved by the images and dignity of the processional, she started crying and couldn't stop.LutheranChikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02685566332651377907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post-23854234409699677502009-04-07T06:48:00.000-07:002009-04-07T06:48:00.000-07:00I've always had mixed feelings about Palm Sunday. ...I've always had mixed feelings about Palm Sunday. We do the children's palm procession. And they give their palms to the others in the pews. We also have the whole passion story, because so many don't hear it during the week. But I just don't know if we should be emulating the crowds of that Sunday who were like political groupies in some ways. Or is the dramatic reading of the passion story an antidote to that? I'm still not sure after all these years.LoieJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977264499770654307noreply@blogger.com