The seven days after Palm Sunday leading to Easter are sometimes called “the Holy Week,” and each day presents scene or episodes that I think over and contemplate and I would like to invite readers to do that with me. Sunday presented the so-called “Triumphal Entry” into Jerusalem:
John 12 is unique in that it encapsulates Palm Sunday and the next three days in a kind of amalgamation of overall intent. With chapter 13, the Holy Thursday event of the Lord's Supper is described. Thus, Holy Week is somewhat derivative of seemingly important occurrences to be found in the other three gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. For example:
Holy Monday = The Fig Tree
Holy Tuesday = The Temple Destruction Foretold
Holy Wednesday = Final Anointing of Christ / Judas Bargain
Holy Thursday = Lord's Supper
Holy Friday = First Christian Passover
Holy Saturday = Internment of the Body
Holy Sunday = Empty Tomb / Resurrection
Thanks for always bringing up pertinent matters for discussion. This week is outstanding for what it means. I did not know that C.S. Lewis correlated the word, 'Logos', to 'Tao', which would indeed seem to indicate that he knew there was a supersensible parameter that likely had to be veiled in imaginative picturing and conception. He listened a bit to Barfield's effulgence about Steiner, but it was way ahead of its time. I highly doubt that Lewis could have ever tolerated Steiner's interpretation of the Gospel of John.
John 12 is unique in that it encapsulates Palm Sunday and the next three days in a kind of amalgamation of overall intent. With chapter 13, the Holy Thursday event of the Lord's Supper is described. Thus, Holy Week is somewhat derivative of seemingly important occurrences to be found in the other three gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. For example:
Holy Monday = The Fig Tree
Holy Tuesday = The Temple Destruction Foretold
Holy Wednesday = Final Anointing of Christ / Judas Bargain
Holy Thursday = Lord's Supper
Holy Friday = First Christian Passover
Holy Saturday = Internment of the Body
Holy Sunday = Empty Tomb / Resurrection
Thanks for always bringing up pertinent matters for discussion. This week is outstanding for what it means. I did not know that C.S. Lewis correlated the word, 'Logos', to 'Tao', which would indeed seem to indicate that he knew there was a supersensible parameter that likely had to be veiled in imaginative picturing and conception. He listened a bit to Barfield's effulgence about Steiner, but it was way ahead of its time. I highly doubt that Lewis could have ever tolerated Steiner's interpretation of the Gospel of John.
Max, what a lovely invitation. I gladly join you in these contemplations this Holy Week.