A great day… Palm Sunday, it seems, was greater than people often imagine. Let us try to reconstruct the course of that day. It was the morning after the Sabbath. Word had reached Jerusalem that on this very day, Jesus of Nazareth would enter the city. Jerusalem was in an uproar—He was coming, the One…
Today’s feast mentally transports us to the sorrowful final days of the earthly life of our Lord Jesus Christ. On the day following the miraculous resurrection of His friend Lazarus from the dead, the Lord Jesus Christ set out from Bethany toward Jerusalem. Great crowds of people followed Christ and went out to meet Him….
On Palm Sunday, the Triumphal Entry of our Lord Jesus Christ into Jerusalem to suffer willingly. A homily by St. John Chrysostom. Just as we have now crossed the deep sea of the fast, let us, O faithful, undertake with even greater zeal the struggle of this week, and pass on from the miracles of…
The Feast of the Lord Jesus Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem also marks the beginning of the days of His saving Passion. Yet in the festal services, we hear almost no forewarning of those sorrowful days when even nature itself shared in the suffering of its Creator in the flesh: “The sun was darkened, the earth trembled,…