Oh my My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love You.
I beg pardon for those who do not believe,
do not adore, do not hope, do not love you.
hugs n’ blessings as we prepare to roll away the stones keeping us from Him.
Tag: Good Friday
hosanna, in the highest!
Yesterday was Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week!
Yes, the holiest week of the year for the Catholic Church.
This week the Church commemorates Christ’s death and burial which begins with Palm Sunday. The palms symbolize peace and victory. It was custom during Jesus’ time for people to pay homage by laying palm branches – or even clothes – in front of people who were owed a great amount of respect. The Gospel of John tells of how Jesus was welcomed into the city mere days before his death: “When the great crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, they took pam branches and went out to meet him, and cried out: ‘Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, (even) the king of Israel’” (John 12: 12-13). On Palm Sunday, the faithful receive palm branches at the beginning of Mass followed by a procession. Doing so invites us to reenact Jesus’ arrival in Jerusalem. Also, the blessed palms at Mass on Sunday, should not be thrown away. According to Canon Law (1171), blessed items are to be treated with reverence. If there is a need to dispose of such items, they must be buried or burned.
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…3 days
“…that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.”
1 Corinthians 15:4
Lent has drawn to an end…
It has not been an easy lent,
but rather – a Holy one.
And I believe many, if not most of us, with all that is going on in the world, can attest to this same feeling.
When was the last time you can remember a lent of suffering – alongside Jesus – such as this?
Our Church, our World, our Community, our Families –
each have experienced a tremendous level of suffering, in one form or another.
And yet…
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