Let us pray – True and humble
king, hailed by the crowd as Messiah: grant us the faith to know you and love
you; that we may be found beside you on the way of the Cross, which is the path
of glory. Amen.
“Let
the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the
form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but
emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And
being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point
of death— even death on a cross.” Those are the opening verses to an ancient
hymn of the earliest church which St. Paul quotes in his letter written from
prison to the church in Philippi. These seven verses that we heard from
Philippians this morning may well function as one of the earliest creeds of the
Church, and they give us insight into what is at the core of Christianity and
this week, which we call “Holy.”
