{"id":108403,"date":"2024-03-23T15:20:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T22:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=108403"},"modified":"2024-03-23T15:20:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T22:20:45","slug":"palm-sunday-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/palm-sunday-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosanna to the Son of David!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

T<\/span>his weekend, Holy Week begins with the Sunday of Lord’s triumphal entry into Jersusalem – Palm Sunday<\/a> of the Lord’s Passion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Good Friday is coming – the Passion and Death are coming – for the moment, this moment, joy resounds as our King arrives in His city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In most parishes throughout the world, the principal Mass is normally celebrated by a procession of the people into the church, waving palm branches.<\/p>\n\n\n

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W<\/span>hen Jesus<\/em> and the disciples drew near to Jerusalem,
to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives,
he sent two of his disciples and said to them,
“Go into the village opposite you,
and immediately on entering it,
you will find a colt tethered on which no one has ever sat.
Untie it and bring it here.
If anyone should say to you,
‘Why are you doing this?’ reply,
‘The Master has need of it
and will send it back here at once.'”
So they went off
and found a colt tethered at a gate outside on the street,
and they untied it.
Some of the bystanders said to them,
“What are you doing, untying the colt?”
They answered them just as Jesus had told them to,
and they permitted them to do it.
So they brought the colt to Jesus
and put their cloaks over it.
And he sat on it.
Many people spread their cloaks on the road,
and others spread leafy branches
that they had cut from the fields.
Those preceding him as well as those following kept crying out:
“Hosanna!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is to come!
Hosanna in the highest!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Mark 11:1-10: Cycle B Reading at the Procession with Palms)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n