Palm Sunday - Entrance into Jerusalem

Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday, the sixth and last Sunday of Lent , a Sunday of the highest rank, begins our entry into Holy Week and our Easter duty.

And this is good and useful and important as we Christians work out our salvation with fear and trembling, as we try to understand what we believe, but there really is no substitute for the story itself, for the encounter.

It has to be lived. It has to be felt. It is not merely intellectual ideas, or abstract calculations of grace and merit. It is this story of Jesus and his betrayal and death.

How will we respond to this story? How will we find our own lives in it? There’s no substitute, no way out. If we want to know the peace and joy that Jesus offers, we have to follow him where he goes. That is what Palm Sunday, and the rest of this week, is all about.