THE PALM SUNDAY OF THE LORD'S PASSION.
PALM SUNDAY OF THE LORD'S PASSION.
"When Jesus and his 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!” (Mark 11: 1 - 10).
Sunday 24th March 2024, the Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion.
Today is the Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord. On this day the Church celebrates the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem to accomplish His mission, called the Paschal Mystery.
The Paschal Mystery is the core of the Gospel. Jesus suffered. Jesus died. Jesus rose from the dead. Jesus ascended into Heaven. Before the Gospels were written many years after the Ascension of Jesus, this was the only creed the first and early Christians were expected to know. It was called the Apostolic Proclamation or Kerygma.
“Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!” (Cf Mark 11 - 12).
The Kingdom that Jesus came to establish will fulfill and complete the "kingdom of our father David."
The summary of the Church's teaching on the kingdom is:
"The kingdom of heaven was inaugurated on earth by Christ.
"This kingdom shone out before men in the word, in the works and in the presence of Christ" (Lumen Gentium 5).
The Church is the seed and beginning of this kingdom. Its keys are entrusted to Peter. (CCC 567).
"Almighty and ever-living GOD, who as an example of humility for the human race to Follow caused our Savior to take flesh and submit to the CROSS, graciously grant that we may heed his lesson of patient suffering and so merit a share in his Resurrection… "(Collect of Palm 🌴 Sunday).
St Joseph is the man chosen by God to be the foster father and guardian of Jesus.
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