News Item: : Palm Sunday 2017
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Sunday 09 April 2017 - 08:59:12

Matthew 21 and Blessing of the Palms in the Traditional Liturgy: Hosanna to the Son of David; blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord. O King of Israel: Hosanna in the highest.

Jesus Makes His Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem - From a Palm Sunday Meditation by St. Alphonsus de Liguori

Jesus Christ enters the city: the people go forth to meet Him; they receive Him with acclamations and rejoicings; and, in order to do Him honour, some of them strew branches of palms along the road, whilst others spread out their garments for Him to pass over. Oh, who would ever then have said that that Lord, now recognized as the Messias, and welcomed with so many demonstrations of respect, the next time that He appeared along the self-same ways would be under sentence of death, and with a cross upon His shoulders?

Ah, my beloved Jesus, these people now receive Thee with acclamations, saying, ''Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord! Glory to the Son of David! Blessed be He who cometh in the name of God for our salvation!'' And then they will raise their voices insultingly to Pilate to take Thee out of the world, and cause Thee to die upon a cross: ''Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!''

Go, my soul, and do thou, too, lovingly say to Him, ''Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord! Blessed forever be Thou that art come, O Saviour of the world! For, otherwise, we had all been lost. O my Saviour, save me!''

When the evening, however, was come, after all those acclamations, there was no one found who would invite Him to lodge in his house; so that He was obliged to retrace His steps to Bethany.

O my beloved Redeemer, if others will not give Thee a welcome, I desire to welcome Thee into my poor heart. At one time, I unhappily expelled Thee from my soul; but I now prize to have Thee with me more than the possession of all the treasures of earth.

I love Thee, O my Saviour; what power shall ever be able to separate me from my love of Thee? Sin only; but from this sin it is Thine to deliver me, by Thy help, O my Jesus; and Thine too, by thy intercession, O Mary, my Mother.

We pray for all who read this to be blessed with all the graces of this holy day of Palm Sunday 2017.

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