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Sunday, April 17, 2011

AND ON THIS BEGINNING OF HOLY WEEK AND JESUS' TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM ON PALM SUNDAY

You may not like this portrayal of Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem but it is one of my favorite scenes from "Jesus Christ, Super Star." Am I dating myself? Have a blessed Holy Week!

And so my followers are rejecting my artistic tastes? Then what about this more traditional artistic rendering of the same?
VIEW MORE TRADITIONAL TRIUMPHAL ENTRY BY PRESSING HERE!

And I looked at this after I prepared my homily and it is basically what I preached. Should I sue for plagiarism?

19 comments:

Gene said...

Fr., You are dating yourself! I hated Jesus Christ Superstar!LOL!

Anonymous said...

Well I LOVED it. Still do. I liked the original cast much better, but this is pretty good.

rcg

Gene said...

Pop theology/secularist/psycho-historical garbage. Shame, RCG!

Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...

It's art! It's creative! It's liturgy?

Gene said...

Ah, creativity! One of the secular trinity...there was a a philosopher/theologian who was popular when I was in seminary and grad school, Paul Ricouer, who wrote a book called, "The Symbolism of Evil," (that should be a warning right there)among others. He said that it was a wonderful thing that Adam and Eve sinned and ate the fruit because it was the beginning of "man's creativity and self-differentiation." Yes, indeed, which means,ipso facto,that it was really a fine thing that Christ agonized in the Garden, was scourged at the pillar, reviled, spat upon, and crucified just so we could be creative and self-expressive. Yes, indeedy, and I suppose the Golden Calf was among the earliest of our wonderful creative/artistic efforts...

Vianney1100 said...

Father,
I am hoping that you are pulling our legs on this one. I see the influence of Timothy Leary, the Beatles, and that Yogi they spent time with back then. This is the same generation that gave us Charles Manson and Jim Morrison. I think we need to leave this in the dustbin of history. This is the secular hermenuetics of discontinuity influencing the faith lives of millions.
Father, I think you may need the rats back to return you to reality.

Templar said...

It's art! It's creative! It's liturgy?


Art? In the eye of the beholder perhaps.

Creative? About as much as anything else in the Hippie era perhaps, fostering an illusion of such but in hindsight corrosive and destructive.

Liturgy? Ahhhhhhh, no.

Anonymous said...

It is a story based on the Passion, but not to be uesed as theology any more than Maometto is a guide to proselytizaion. One of the lessons in the Passion is that God, through his Son, experiences and understands human trials. I would imagine that this is what the Gnostics would have written, had they had Stratocasters. There is error, for sure, but a good bit of decent secular music with strong Christian influence. Did you notice the High Priest had his jeweled breast plate on?

We had a a soloist sing a version of Pie Jesu \, I was longing, secretly, for the ALW or Faure versions. Some modern music is not so bad.

rcg

Gene said...

RCG, Modern music is to music as military intelligence is to intelligence.

Templar said...

Ah yes, the new link is much better.

Anonymous said...

True enough. Although I bet the Gloria sung to "Unchained Melody" or the Kyrie sung to "Only You" would be acceptable to you. ;-)

rcg

Gene said...

RCG, Unlike you, I try to keep my carnal/lust songs separate from my praise/worship ones. *Bronx cheer* LOL!

Anonymous said...

Father, get your music director to look into shape note singing, ala Sacred Harp, and compare it to Gregorian Chant phonically. The theology of the tunes in Sacred Harp are unacceptable, but you can find good lyrics.

Contrast to this Gregorian Chant in a more modern tune. Ubi Caritas

ghp95134 said...

...Modern music is to music as military intelligence is to intelligence....

Unfair comparison! Most people who employ this tired old saw (id est, military intellignece = oxymoron) have never worked with military intelligence. The people I've known in the community are HIGHLY intelligent, many are members of MENSA.

I, on the other hand ... am a proud member of DENSA! (^__^)

--Guy Power

Gene said...

No slight upon the military intended...it is an old saw. But, then SNAFU and all that...LOL!

Anonymous said...

So, do you think the weird leather hats are authentic?

Anonymous said...

About the hats: no. The Hebrew priests had to let their hair grow long, like Samson, and to keep it under control they used tar to whip it into a Pompadour.

rcg

Gene said...

Well, RCG, they must have liked Samson's hair...he really brought the house down...

Anonymous said...

Not until he turned a blind eye to Delilah.

rcg