Sunday, March 24, 2013

Dominica Palmarum

Originally posted 04/01/212

Hossana!





In crastinum turba multa, quae venerat ad diem festum, cum audissent quia venit Iesus Hierosolymam, acceperunt ramos palmarum et processerunt obviam ei et clamabant: “ Hosanna! Benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini, et rex Israel! ”. Invenit autem Iesus asellum et sedit super eum, sicut scriptum est: “ Noli timere, filia Sion. Ecce rex tuus venit sedens super pullum asinae ” Jn 12:12-15

The King enters Jerusalem, Holy Week begins. This week the Lenten season reaches it's end and we leave the desert we inhabited for the last 5 weeks and the Paschal Mystery reaches it's crescendo. It's fitting that here in Western Georgia, as Easter approaches the flora has returned to it's verdant splendor. This is the most solemn and glorious week of the year.

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