{"id":141,"date":"2009-04-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/sermons\/2009\/04\/05\/meditation-on-the-passion\/"},"modified":"2009-04-05T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T11:00:00","slug":"meditation-on-the-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/sermons\/2009\/04\/05\/meditation-on-the-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation on the Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/av\/chapel\/podcasts\/sundayservices\/sermon\/Sermon040509.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Click here to hear Sermon only<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;font-weight: bold\">Palm Sunday<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Remember that it is not the passion of Christ that defines the Person of Christ, but the Person Who defines the passion.  Remember that it is not the suffering that bears the meaning, but the meaning that bears the suffering\u2026that it is not the cross that carries the love but the love that carries the cross\u2026that it is not crucifixion that encompasses salvation, but salvation that encompasses even the tragedy of crucifixion\u2026 and that it is not the long sentence of Holy week, with all its phrases, dependent clauses and semi-colons that completes the gospel, but it is the punctuation to come, the last mark of the week, whether it be the exclamation point of Peter, the full stop period of Paul or the question mark of Mary\u2014Easter defines Holy Week, and not the other way around.  Oh, we want to be clear, now: the resurrection follows but not replace the cross, for sure.  Still, it is also true that the cross precedes but does not overshadow the resurrection.  It is Life that has the last word.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-style: italic\">-The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/442512413251648724-7434013014041785482?l=marshsermons.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to hear Sermon only Palm Sunday Remember that it is not the passion of Christ that defines the Person of Christ, but the Person Who defines the passion. Remember that it is not the suffering that bears the meaning, but the meaning that bears the suffering\u2026that it is not the cross that carries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}