Today Christ joyfully enters into Jerusalem.
May we also enter into Holy Week with this same joy that surrounds us on this day.
We enter this week, not burdened by the guilt of Christ's passion and death, but with celebration and joy in what God has done for us.
-This reality will be revealed to us throughout these upcoming days, so may we joyfully allow ourselves to enter into them.
-Holy Thursday will be filled with joy because it was on this day that Christ instituted the Holy Priesthood and gave us the Holy Eucharist.
-Good Friday will be filled with joy because through Christ's death upon the cross we are forgiven for the many sins that we have committed against God.
-On Holy Saturday we will await with great anticipation for the great joy that will come on Easter. This joy is the reality of the Resurrection where we are forever given hope.
At this time we will joyfully process into this Church. May we do so with hearts filled with joy as we listen attentively to the words of our Lord's Passion and allow ourselves to be placed in the midst of them. Here our shouts of Hosanna will soon fade to make way for the cries of "Let him be crucified!" may we realize that these are the words that each of us shout out in the midst of our sin. With joy may we come to embrace Holy Week and also the sacrament of confession in order that we may put the vileness of our sin to death and thus be better prepared to behold Easter. May this joyful entry truly usher us into the joys that will unfold throughout Holy Week.
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