{"id":35042,"date":"2018-03-25T10:05:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T14:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=35042"},"modified":"2018-03-25T14:51:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T18:51:57","slug":"at-the-door-on-palm-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2018\/03\/at-the-door-on-palm-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"At the door on Palm Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/At-the-door-Palm-Sunday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35043 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/At-the-door-Palm-Sunday-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/At-the-door-Palm-Sunday-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/At-the-door-Palm-Sunday.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a>In the ancient form of the Holy Week rites (i.e., prior to the Holy Week reforms of Pius XII in the early\u00a01950&#8217;s) there is a very brief yet beautiful ceremony that occurs on Palm Sunday when<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0the procession goes outside the church, the doors to the church are closed. The door of the church is then knocked on three times with the shaft of the processional cross. Having served the Mass, I can say it is a powerful and moving rite of which Benedict XVI spoke:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the old liturgy for Palm Sunday, the priest, arriving in front of the church, would knock loudly with the shaft of the processional cross on the door that was still closed; thereupon, it would be opened. This was a beautiful image of the mystery of Jesus Christ himself who, with the wood of his Cross, with the power of his love that is given, knocked from the side of the world at God&#8217;s door; on the side of a world that was not able to find access to God. With his Cross, Jesus opened God&#8217;s door, the door between God and men. Now it is open.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Homily of Pope Benedict XVI<br \/>\nPalm Sunday, 2007<\/p>\n<p>Blessed Holy Week &#8212; a week of great and divine drama!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the ancient form of the Holy Week rites (i.e., prior to the Holy Week reforms of Pius XII in the early\u00a01950&#8217;s) there is a very brief yet beautiful ceremony that occurs on Palm Sunday when\u00a0the procession goes outside the church, the doors to the church are closed. The door of the church is then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2018\/03\/at-the-door-on-palm-sunday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">At the door on Palm Sunday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[32242,1953,2743],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35044,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35042\/revisions\/35044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}