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Finkenwalde, Fifth Sunday in Lent [Judica Sunday], March 14, 1937.
The fifth Sunday in Lent, often called Passion Sunday, is called Judica in churches where worship services were once held in Latin. The name comes from Psalm 43, which is read for evening prayer on that day. The psalm begins, "Judica me, Deus. " ("Vindicate [or judge] me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people. ") In his book Saved from Sacrifice, theologian S. Mark Heim points out that many psalms, the laments of a victim being unjustly persecuted, foreshadow Jesus' passion. Jesus' cry on the cross, for example-"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? "-echoes Psalm 22: 1.