Hello. Happy Palm Sunday.
Today we open the most holy days of our year. This week we will walk with Jesus through His triumph entrance into the city of Jerusalem to the shouts and joyful waving of palm branches. The people’s welcome even moved them to lay their coats on the grown for Jesus to travel over.
Depending on which Gospel we read, we will see that each story is altered. Regardless, we see the enthusiasm of the people calling “Welcome to the Son of David.”
As we continue to read this story, we will see the people turn from shouts of welcome to demanding Jesus’ death.
The well known author and speaker Garrison Keiller tells us ” . . . and people are to march around the church to commutate the event. Palm Sunday, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem and was greeted with applause and with palms. People thought he had come to overthrow the Romans, but . . . no . . . he had come to change THEM . . . and that led to things turning bad.”
And so it begins. Our Lent is over. Hopefully we have ready ourselves for these days ahead of us.
We all should try the best we can to put some time aside to read our Bible, spend time in prayer, and most important spend some time in silence to allow the Lord to speak to us
May the Lord give us the grace of these days to draw ever closer to Him.
Peace and All Good,
Fr. Vinnie, fcm and the
Bros and Srs of the
Franciscan House of Prayer.
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