Reflection

In this week's Encountering the Word video for Palm Sunday (Year B), Jeff Cavins shows us how Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem was the beginning of his entering into a new covenant with humanity. 

This Sunday is Palm Sunday and it commemorates the triumphant entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem.  On that day, Jesus rode into the city on the back of a borrowed donkey.  A HUGE crowd gathered laying down their cloaks in his path and waving leafy branches they had cut from the fields.  The entire crowd shouted “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is to come! Hosanna in the highest!”  They honored him as the king who would conquer and rejoiced for this man who was their awaited Messiah.

Palm Sunday Children's Procession

• 9:00 AM Mass:  A special Children’s Procession and Liturgy of the Word will take place at the 9:00 am Mass. Children will gather with their families in the church and take part in a procession from the church to the parish hall where they will hear a children’s version of the Passion story. After this Liturgy of the Word for Children, they will rejoin their families in the church as they normally do at the 9:00 am Mass.