Parades and Crosses

Our passage from Mark begins the Holy Week Journey. We did not read all of Mark’s narrative and so I want to read this from Mark, to join the parade with  the outcome of that parade. (Mark 14: 1 - 9)

In many ways we think we know what the narrative means because we hear it every Lent and Easter.  Our hymns give us an image of a great parade yet we forget that old hymn two gates to the city,  Mark gave us an narrative about parades that challenged the power of Rome.