"Live life out loud."
- Delaney -
Today is Palm Sunday
The last Sunday before Easter
"Palm Sunday is the final Sunday of Lent, the beginning of Holy Week, and commemorates the triumphant arrival of Christ in Jerusalem, days before he was crucified.
Palm Sunday is known as such because the faithful will often receive palm fronds which they use to participate in the reenactment of Christ's arrival in Jerusalem. In the Gospels, Jesus entered Jerusalem riding a young donkey, and to the lavish praise of the townspeople who threw clothes, or possibly palms or small branches, in front of him as a sign of homage. This was a customary practice for people of great respect.
Palm branches are widely recognized symbol of peace and victory, hence their preferred use on Palm Sunday.
The use of a donkey instead of a horse is highly symbolic, it represents the humble arrival of someone in peace, as opposed to arriving on a steed in war.
A week later, Christ would rise from the dead on the first Easter.
During Palm Sunday Mass, palms are distributed to parishioners who carry them in a ritual procession into church. The palms are blessed and many people will fashion them into small crosses or other items of personal devotion. These may be returned to the church, or kept for the year."
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Walk in Faith - Quote of the Day (Romans 8:6)
"For the carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."
Perhaps we need to rethink our idea of what "peace" really is. God is always ready to give us true peace, if we are willing to ask him for it. Be at peace with God, and he will defeat the worldly beast within. God's peace is promised and proclaimed.
"For the carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."
Perhaps we need to rethink our idea of what "peace" really is. God is always ready to give us true peace, if we are willing to ask him for it. Be at peace with God, and he will defeat the worldly beast within. God's peace is promised and proclaimed.
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Palm Sunday - Hosanna!
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