Palm Sunday (Year B)
Opening the Word • 5m 36s
This Sunday we find ourselves at a crossroads. As we approach the great mystery of Christ's Death and Resurrection, we are coming to the end of our Lenten journey. It is a time to both look back and reflect, and to look forward and prepare.
Holy Week is a unique time in the Church calendar where we are suddenly walking minute by minute with Jesus as he goes through his Passion, Death, and Resurrection. Starting today with Palm Sunday, we enter into Jesus's life in "real time." The way God works in time during this week can really help us to enter into friendship with Jesus as we walk with him in his sufferings.
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