Today is Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord. It gets its name from the reading of the Gospel of the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem and the Passion of the Lord. This is also the Sunday which begins the holiest of weeks on the Christian calendar.
Meditating on the suffering that Jesus underwent is one of the most fruitful kinds of prayer we could possibly do. It is a meditation on divine love and mercy. It is a meditation on the very heart of God and the Good News which Jesus proclaimed and lived during the first Holy Week.
This week at the Cathedral we will celebrate the usual liturgies and by doing so we will "enter in" to these great moments of divine love. On Holy Thursday we will be immersed by the liturgy into the great moment of Christ's sacramental self-giving in the institution of the Holy Eucharist and also the institution of His sacrament of self-preservation through the priesthood. Both sacraments began in the Upper Room on the night before He died.
Then, on Good Friday, we will be drawn to Calvary as we listen once again to the proclamation of the Passion, venerate the Cross, and receive Jesus in Holy Communion.
Finally, on the greatest night of the Church's year, we will celebrate the Easter Vigil and be a witness of His empty tomb. The Church will unleash her Sacraments of Initiation as several of our brothers and sisters will become Catholic by receiving Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Communion.
I hope you can join us for these great Holy Week liturgies.
In Christ,
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