Palm Sunday Readings - excitement on the streets of Jerusalem!

Dear William,

Thank you for the Message.

Palm Sunday is a very busy for the Sacristan and Cloister Procession.

I enjoy your insights.

Blessings for Holy Week.

Donald

PS. Pausing yet while pondering the Salvator Mundi, rediscovered de Vinci.

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: William W ...
To: Donald...
Sent: Sunday, 1 April 2012, 9:48
Subject: Palm Sunday readings

Dear Father Donald,

Just to delight in sharing my early excitement on Palm Sunday with you!

There is a mesmerising passage on DGO in the commentary of the day: Saint Epiphanius of Salamis (?-403),

The children acclaim Christ as God but the priests cursehim; the children worship him and the Doctors of the Law despise and speak ill of him. The children say: «Hosanna!»and his enemies shout: «Crucify!» The former surround Christ carrying palms, the latter attack him with swords; the former cut down branches, the latter prepare a cross.

Also, I am delighting in the refinements to the christological text of Philippians 2 in the AMP Bible version:

⁶Christ Jesus, although being essentially one with God and in the form of God [possessing the fullness of the attributes which make God God], did not think this equality with God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained, ⁷But stripped Himself [of all privileges and rightful dignity], so as to assume the guise of a servant (slave), in that He became like men and was born a human being.⁸And after He had appeared in human form, He abased and humbled Himself [still further] and carried His obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross!

This day is filled with the excitement on the streets of Jerusalem!

... in Our Lord,

William