Friday November 29 Reign of Christ
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Psalm 140
A cry to God for help against enemies who are strong and trust that God will help the poor and needy.
Psalm 142
A cry to God to help when there is no hope. If God acts to save me, I will then be able to praise God again.
These two psalms are appropriate for Fridays, a mini-anniversary of Christ’s crucifixion.
Zechariah 14: 1-11 What’s Zechariah about?
God will act with immense power to restore Jerusalem.
Luke 19.28-40 What’s Luke about?
Jesus prepares for the Passover celebration and enters the city of Jerusalem as an equal on a lowly donkey, perhaps simultaneously as a Roman legion enters the city with its full military force to prevent revolution during the Passover ceremonies (which symbolize God rescuing the people from slavery). Religious leaders tell him to stop this demonstration, because they are frightened that the Roman legion will respond to this challenge with violence, but Jesus insists that everyone rejoices when the kingdom comes—even stones!
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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