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<\/p>\nFind out more about why we celebrate Palm Sunday…<\/p>\n
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On this day, the Church recalls the entrance of Christ into Jerusalem to accomplish His Paschal Mystery. Accordingly, the memorial of this entrance of the Lord takes place at all Masses, by means of the Procession, <\/em>or the Solemn Entrance <\/em>(before the principal Mass), or the Simple Entrance<\/em> (before other Masses).<\/p>\n This triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem recalls the words of the prophet Zechariah in 9:9 – \u201cSee your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey<\/em>\u201d. It also recalls the words in\u00a0Psalm 118:25-26 – \u201cBlessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cOnly when someone values love more highly than life, that is, only where someone is ready to put life second to love, for the sake of love, can love be stronger and more than death. If it is to be more than death it must first be more than mere life. Jesus\u2019 total love for men, which leads him to the cross, is perfected in total stepping-over to the Father and therein becomes stronger than death, because in this it is at the same time total \u2018being held\u2019 by him.<\/em>\u201d Find out more about why we celebrate Palm Sunday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ryan-black","has-more-link","post-765","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-parish-news","category-the-catholic-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85OtW-cl","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Palm-Sunday-Icon.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Palm-Sunday-Icon-240x300.jpg\"){kind=icon}
In Eastern Tradition, the donkey was regarded as an animal of peace and the\u00a0horse as an animal of war. Jesus\u2019 entry into Jerusalem shows the contrast between the heavenly kingdom and the earthly kingdom. A Roman Emperor or General would never have entered into a city on a donkey. But Jesus is not a political figure, a warring Messiah, but the Prince of Peace.<\/p>\n
\n(Pope Benedict XVI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"