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Friends of the Rosary,
Today is Palm Sunday, the feast of the Lord’s Passion, the beginning of the solemnity of Holy Week. It commemorates Christ’s entry into Jerusalem to complete the Paschal Mystery.
We enter the holiest part of Lent, with the Passion and the Resurrection, with the Cross as the way to Easter victory, with the sacred passion of Christ as a prerequisite to Easter’s glory.
During the liturgy of the Mass of Palm Sunday, the priests and deacons wearing red vestments do a special entrance that includes the blessing of the palms remembering how Jesus entered in triumph into his own city, to complete his work as our Messiah: to suffer, to die, and to rise again (Matt 21:1-11; Mark 11:1-10; John 12:12-16; Luke 19:28-40).
The palms are blessed with the following prayer:
Almighty God, we pray that you bless these branches and make them holy. Today, we joyfully acclaim Jesus our Messiah and King. May we one day reach the happiness of the new and everlasting Jerusalem by faithfully following him who lives and reigns forever and ever. Amen.
As the faithful, we remember and dramatize Christ’s triumphal entrance into Jerusalem on a donkey.
At that time, a vast crowd assembled, put their cloaks or branches on the ground, and waved palm branches, acclaiming Christ as the King of Israel, the Son of David.
Today, we wave our palm branches and sing as the priest enters the church:
Hosanna to the Son of David, the King of Israel.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.
Our joy is quickly subdued as we read the Passion in the Gospel.
Jesus’ experience of being loved and hated, of being welcomed and then rejected, gives us the strength to endure the injustices and hardships of our lives.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will. Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
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