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The Holy City and Palm Sunday
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The Holy City
Music by Stephen Adams
words by Frederick E. Weatherly
Click on videos below:
► The
Holy City (Jerusalem), Charlotte Church
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Listen to Mormon Tabernacle Choir
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Last night I
lay a sleeping, There came a dream so fair,
I stood in old Jerusalem Beside the temple there.
I heard the children singing, And ever as they sang,
Me thought the voice of angels From Heav’n in answer rang;
“Jerusalem!
Jerusalem!
Lift up your gates and sing,
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna to your King!”
And then me thought my dream was chang’d,
The streets no longer rang,
Hush’d were the glad hosannas The little children sang.
The sun grew dark with mystery, The morn was cold and chill,
As the shadow of a cross arose Upon a lonely hill,
As the shadow of a cross arose Upon a lonely hill.
“Jerusalem!
Jerusalem!
Hark! how the angels sing,
Hosanna in the highest,
Hosanna to your King.”
And once again the scene was chang’d,
New earth there seem’d to be,
I saw the Holy City Beside the tideless sea;
The light of God was on its streets,
The gates were open wide,
And all who would might enter, And no one was denied.
No need of moon or stars by night, Or sun to shine by day,
It was the new Jerusalem, That would not pass away,
It was the new Jerusalem, That would not pass away.
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“Jerusalem!
Jerusalem!
Hark! how the angels sing,
Hosanna in the highest,
Hosanna to your King.” |
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Palm Sunday
The beginning of Christian Holy Week
(also known as Passion Week)
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| Holy Week or Passion Week -- so
called because it is the week between Palm Sunday and Easter
Sunday in which the Christians commemorate Jesus Christ's
suffering, death on the cross, and resurrection on the third
day. It celebrates Jesus' triumphant entry into
Jerusalem on the back of a donkey. Great crowds of people
thronged the streets waving palm branches to welcome Him.
The people shouted "Hosanna" and laid their cloaks and palm
branches from the nearby trees in His path.
Notes:
Jesus enters Jerusalem riding a donkey rather than a horse
which signifies the peaceful nature of his entry. People are
expecting a king and surrender themselves to his authority
by taking their cloaks off and laying it on the ground. The
palm branches signify the expectation of a military victory
of their king over the occupying Romans. Jesus is entering
Jerusalem to bring peace and forgiveness to the world by
taking the sin of the world upon Himself - a Spiritual King.
People are seeking a worldly and physical king. |
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Palm Sunday is a
feast which always falls on the Sunday before Easter Sunday. The
feast commemorates an event mentioned by all four Gospels
Matthew 21:1-11
-- the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem in the
days before his Passion. It is also called Passion Sunday or Palm
Sunday of the Lord's Passion.
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