[Honorary Serb]

You are right!

Back in the day, “Superstar” was really popular to enact in Lutheran parishes that later joined the very liberal “Evangelical Lutheran Church in America” (ELCA).

We all know haw that turned out! Lord have Mercy!

Blessed Palm Sunday and Holy Week to all! Pray for the conversion of all liberal church members, and for the forgiveness of our own sins!

[lightman]

The first Idiomelon of the Aposticha of the Vespers for Palm Sunday evening, almost never served in parishes but the "pivot" from the morning celebration to the solemn services of Holy Week:

O believers, as we come together,
let us proceed from holy Feast to holy Feast,
from palms and branches,
to the saving solemn ceremony of the Passion of Christ;
and we shall observe how He undergoes His voluntary Passion for our sake,
and gives His life as ransom for the whole world.
Let us thank Him and sing the appointed hymns,
extolling Him and saying,
“O fountain of compassion and harbor of salvation,
glory to You,O Lord!”