Holy Week Reflection - Palm Sunday

Today, Passion/Palm Sunday, the Church begins the most solemn week of her liturgical year with the re-enactment of the Lord’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem. We carry palms in procession as did the crowd who acclaimed him as the messianic Son of David. We follow their example now, but in the full knowledge of faith that the one riding on a donkey is the Son of God and saviour of the world. The climax of Christ’s earthly life was approaching, the hour when he would lay down his life and take it up again for our salvation. Through the timelessness of the liturgy, on this Sunday of Palms we too acclaim him as he goes on his triumphal way.

+Michael Campbell OSA
Coadjutor Bishop of Lancaster

(from the Diocesan website)