Palm Sunday: entering Holy Week with Jesus
A feast day... in the colours of the PassionPalm Sunday is a unique feast in the liturgical year. It holds together two contrasting emotions: the joy of a people acclaiming Jesus as king, and the beginning of his ascent to the cross. This day marks the beginning of Holy Week, the most intense days of the Christian faith. This is no mere evocation of the past. Palm Sunday is a call, here and now, to follow Christ with all that this implies: praise, but also total self-giving.
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