Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday is a wonderful celebration. We participate in an outdoor procession, a day of palms fronds and exuberant praises to Christ. In some small way, we are mimicking the crowds that were with Jesus as he entered the final stage of his journey into Jerusalem. The crowds were celebrating that the Davidic King, the long-anticipated Messiah, had arrived. We join them in that celebration.
But we also remember why Jesus went to Jerusalem. We become sombre as we know the humble act of riding a donkey will lead to Jesus’s humility and death on the cross. The triumphal journey that we celebrate on Palm Sunday is the journey that leads to the cross. We are confronted by how easy it is to go from the joyful singing of “Hosanna” to the baying for blood in shouting “Let him be crucified”.
With our journey through Holy Week Palm Sunday to Easter Day, we are led deeper into a sombre reflection and reverence of the final days of Jesus 's life. As we look to our own lives, one way we can do that is through the lens of Holy Week. For example, am I living as if in a Good Friday, a time of sacrifice and pain? Am I living as if in a Holy Saturday a time of darkness, doubt, anxiety and confusion as my faith is tested? Or am I living as if in a time of Easter Day, a time of joy and new life, a gift from God?
This is one of the ways that Jesus’s life and his Church give us a powerful way us to make sense of our lives and those of others.
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