PALM SUNDAY JERUSALEM 2014 at the Church of Holy Sepucher

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Armenian priests hold palms after the celebrations and mass of the holy Palm Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

http://en.lpj.org/2012/04/02/blessing-of-palms-at-holy-sepulcher/ 

JERUSALEM – The March 31 Vespers and Sunday, April 1 marked the beginning of Holy Week with Palm Sunday. His Beatitude the Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal blessed Palm and olive branches and trees at the Holy Sepulchre on Sunday morning. He presided then the Mass of the Passion. For all, it’s time to enter together in the celebration of the Paschal Mystery. Photo report. 

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Hosanna ! Blessed is the Kingdom that is to come ! » (Mk 11,9-10)

Hi, William,
We are snowed deep, almost impossible for parking for the congregarion if they can come to for the Palm Procession, Passion and Mass.

Thank you for the E-mail on the Palm Sunday COMMMENT. 

Addding on the DGO (We)Blog.

Blessings for Holy Week.

 fr. Donald

Palm Procession ready
lectern and Holy Water

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: William W...
To: Donald. ....
Sent: Sunday, 24 March 2013, 9:33
Subject: DGO - Palm Sunday commentary - remarkable words

Dear Father Donald,

 

I am thrilling at the words on DGO of Saint Cyril of Alexandria (380-444), Bishop, Doctor of the Church (trans. breviary 05/08)  Homily 13 ; PG 77, 1049 
« Hosanna ! Blessed is the Kingdom that is to come ! » (Mk 11,9-10)

 

He is not coming accompanied by the invisible powers of heaven and legions of angels; nor is he seated on a throne lifted high and raised up, overshadowed by the wings of seraphim, with a chariot of fire and beings with numerous eyes, making everything shake with terrifying displays and the sound of trumpets. He comes concealed in human nature. It is a coming of goodness, not justice; of pardon, not reprisal. He appears, not in his Father's glory but in his mother's humility.

 

Such a thought as will hasten me through this day to run to the gates of the city!

 

With my love in Our Lord,

 

William

  

Commentary of the day : 

Saint Cyril of Alexandria (380-444), Bishop, Doctor of the Church (trans. breviary 05/08) 
Homily 13 ; PG 77, 1049 

« Hosanna ! Blessed is the Kingdom that is to come ! » (Mk 11,9-10)

Brethren, let us celebrate today the coming of our King, let us go before him since he is also our God... Let us lift up our hearts to God and not quench our spirits, let us light our lamps with joy and change the clothing of our souls. Let us take palms in our hands like victors and, like the common people, acclaim him with the crowd. With the children let us sing with a childlike heart: “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”... On this very day he enters Jerusalem; the cross is made ready once more, Adam's bond is obliterated; once more paradise is opened and the thief is taken in; once more the Church makes festival...

He is not coming accompanied by the invisible powers of heaven and legions of angels; nor is he seated on a throne lifted high and raised up, overshadowed by the wings of seraphim, with a chariot of fire and beings with numerous eyes, making everything shake with terrifying displays and the sound of trumpets. He comes concealed in human nature. It is a coming of goodness, not justice; of pardon, not reprisal. He appears, not in his Father's glory but in his mother's humility. Zechariah, the prophet, foretold this coming in former times; he summoned all creation to rejoice...: “Rejoice heartily, O daughter Zion!” It was the very word the Archangel Gabriel had declared to the Virgin: “Rejoice!...”, the same message, too, that our Savior announced to the holy women after his resurrection: “Rejoice”...

“Shout for joy, O daughter Jerusalem! See, your king is coming to you; a just savior is he, meek and riding on an ass, on a colt the foal of an ass”... What does that mean? He does not come in splendor like every other king. He comes in the condition of a servant, of a loving bridegroom, a most gentle lamb, a dewdrop on the fleece, a sheep led to the slaughter, an innocent lamb taken to sacrifice... Today the children of the Hebrews run before him, offering their olive branches to him who is merciful and, with joy, welcoming death's conqueror with palms. “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”

(Biblical references : 1Th 5,19; Mt 25,7; Mt 21,15; Col 2,14; Lk 23,43; Ez 1,4f.; Ex 19, 16s; Zec 9,9; Lk 1,28; Mt 28,9 Gk; Ph 2,7; Jn 1,29; Jg 6,37; Jr 11,19; Is 53,7) 

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