Sunday November 20 Reign of Christ
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Psalm 118
An enthusiastic song of thanksgiving for everything God has done for us—God has protected us from evil forces, and we give praise in the temple and in processions. Appropriate for a Sunday as an anniversary of the triumph of Easter Day.
Portions of the second half of this psalm are traditionally sung on Easter Day.
Zechariah 9.9-16 What’s Zechariah about?
Zechariah writes after the people have returned from exile about 500 years before Christ. These passages are chosen in light of Advent coming soon, because Zechariah imagined God returning to rescue Jerusalem and early Christians applied these images to John the Baptist and Jesus.
Matthew 21.1-13 What’s Matthew about?
Jesus enters Jerusalem, knowing that he is likely to be executed. He may be deliberately modelling a society of equality in contrast to the military might of Rome – a legion entered the city each year around Passover to suppress revolt against Rome. Jesus enters the city simultaneously on a lowly donkey and thus deliberately critiques the Roman assumption that violence is the ultimate tool to ensure peace.
This week’s collect:
Almighty and everlasting God,
whose will it is to restore all things
in your well-beloved Son, our Lord and King,
grant that the peoples of the earth,
now divided and enslaved by sin,
may be freed and brought together
under his gentle and loving rule;
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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