Second paper done!

Turned in my second paper, on the Passion/Palm Sunday entrance rite, last Friday. I'll include just the conclusion here.

The nature of this liturgy as it has evolved over time is poignantly summarized in the symbolic tension of palms and passion. It brings the congregation on a literal and figurative journey through a cascade of polyvalent images and gestures. Its theology is not only multifaceted but also polarized in some places between the disjunctive juxtapositions of celebration and suffering, a victory march and a death march. In many ways this ritual presents a theology that is as foreign to intellectual systemization as it is indigenous to the narrative experience of liturgy, a lex credendi (rule of belief) that is established and animated by a lex orandi (rule of prayer).