"Hosanna in the highest!" This day, Palm Sunday always takes me back to my childhood. Our schools ended at the end of February and our long summer holidays were from March 1st to end of May. Each summer I would be flown to my grandmother to spend the whole summer with her, my aunts and uncles and cousins. What fun! Palm Sunday and Easter always happened while I was in the village with my grandmother.
On Palm Sunday we would get up really early and get into our Sunday best and wait with excitement. And then we hear a big voice shouting, " Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!" Then followed a very large voice of a crowd shouting back, "Hosanna! in the highest!!!" each person in the procession on the streets waving Palm branches. Then we ran out of the house and join them. We process all over the village walking the streets and shouting as though Jesus him self was with us in person riding on a donkey. The crowd got bigger as we process and then we would end it at the Church, processing right into the Church for worship and Sunday School hour.
Today we celebrate once more Jesus entering into Jerusalem as our King. Let us open our hearts and our voices shouting, "Hosanna in the highest!"
Happy Palm Sunday you all.
Prayer: Almighty God, thank you for your love that surrounds us every moment of our lives. Today we especially thank you for Jesus Christ you only son our King. Help us to celebrate Him as our Lord who rode a humble donkey to enter into the city of Jerusalem. Help us to let him enter into our hearts today and always. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Matt 21:1-11
Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem
21When they had come near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2saying to them, ‘Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me. 3If anyone says anything to you, just say this, “The Lord needs them.” And he will send them immediately.’ 4This took place to fulfil what had been spoken through the prophet, saying,
5 ‘Tell the daughter of Zion,
Look, your king is coming to you,
humble, and mounted on a donkey,
and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’
6The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them; 7they brought the donkey and the colt, and put their cloaks on them, and he sat on them. 8A very large crowdspread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9The crowds that went ahead of him and that followed were shouting,
‘Hosanna to the Son of David!
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest heaven!’
10When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in turmoil, asking, ‘Who is this?’11The crowds were saying, ‘This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee.’
5 ‘Tell the daughter of Zion,
Look, your king is coming to you,
humble, and mounted on a donkey,
and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’
6The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them; 7they brought the donkey and the colt, and put their cloaks on them, and he sat on them. 8A very large crowdspread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9The crowds that went ahead of him and that followed were shouting,
‘Hosanna to the Son of David!
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest heaven!’
10When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in turmoil, asking, ‘Who is this?’11The crowds were saying, ‘This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee.’
LITURGY OF THE PALMS Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29 Matthew 21:1-11
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