Experiencing Mark’s account of Christ’s self-Sacrifice for us (Mark 14-15), our only adequate response might be from the ancient Eucharistic devotion, let all mortal flesh keep silence.

No words can help entering into the most Holy Week, more than fully entering into our Lord’s Passion, Holy Thursday’s service, Good Friday’s veneration of the Cross, and the Easter Vigil light of Christ’s Resurrection, well prepared and well celebrated.

Palm Sunday, recalls Christ, the anointed one, entering into Jerusalem humbly, in witness to God’s saving Truth. 


The people initially prepare His way with branches, singing Hosanna, meaning, Save us, Lord, give us Salvation (CCC#559).
Christ does. He offers us His Life, true, eternal Life.
But His concern is not for passing powers, possessions, or influences.

So those serving themselves put down their palms, and seek to put the Lord of Life to death (Mark 14-15).

Even Christ’s Disciples, after being given Christ’s very Life in His Institution of the Holy Eucharist, in the Last Supper, fall asleep, fall away, deny, mock, betray.

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
The first line of Psalm 22, inviting us to pray the Psalm, as we should on this day.
The Lord does not despise the affliction of the afflicted, the Lord does save, the ends of the earth shall remember, all the families of the nations shall worship the Lord, our hearts will live forever!

Let us sing with Saint Paul’s hymn (Philippians 2:6-11).

Christ Jesus humbled Himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Because of this, God greatly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name
which is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow,
of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father!