I love this festival.
It isn't about tub-thumping triumphalism. This mornings reading was not about the Sapphire shimmering throne of Revelation but a rough cross. The Gospel today was Jesus saying 'Father forgive them for they know not what they do.' It is in the continuous mode, Jesus said, and Jesus kept on saying, 'Father forgive them for they know not what they do.' As the nails were driven through the flesh of hands and feet; as the cross was raised on high and dropped with quivering jolt into its socket; as they gambled for his clothes, ..he said 'Father forgive....' Not the statement of a muscle flexing monarch but the of the King who came 'not to be served but to serve and give his life a ransom for many.' Love rules.
It has been a good day. The King is among us!
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