The entrance of Jesus to Jerusalem marks historically and liturgically the climax of the mission of Jesus that started in Galilee and will be completed at Pentecost. The procession with palms enacts, in microcosm, the journey we, as disciples, make with the Lord. The mysteries of salvation remain a reality for us in 2021. The Scriptures and the life of faith are not words on a page or something to be studied, dissected and critiqued rather they are to be lived. Yet, this is not as easy as it sounds. If we were living in the time of Christ would we have been spectators or would we have joined in with those who spread their garments on the road and waved branches? Such a public display of enthusiasm regarding the son of a carpenter making a messianic gesture on the eve of Passover would have opened the disciples up to ridicule or even danger from the Roman authorities. Today, to make public affirmations of faith can open us up to mockery in a society that sees Catholic faith as a negative. The liturgical maxim - lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of praying is the law of believing) - challenges us nevertheless to manifest in our lives what we enact in the liturgy.
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