Palm Sunday Message

Dear Parishioners,

Palm Sunday is the Sunday before Easter that begins Holy Week. It is the day that we remember and celebrate the day Jesus entered into Jerusalem as Savior and King. As Jesus rode a donkey into the town of Jerusalem, a large crowd gathered and laid palm branches and their cloaks across the road, giving Jesus royal treatment. The hundreds of people shouted "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"

We are in the final week before we enter into the holiest season of our liturgical year. I encourage you to persevere in your Lenten journey and be steadfast in the practice of the faith. Do not be discouraged when the things you said you will do for Lent are not done yet or when the things you said you will give up for Lent are not given up. As always, it is never too late to do them. We have 1 more week before we celebrate the glorious resurrection of our Lord; persist and persevere.

St. Francis de Sales said, "In order to journey steadily, we must apply ourselves to doing well the stretch of road immediately before us on the first day of the journey, and not waste time wanting to do the last lap of the way while we still have to make it through the first. Remember this well:  we are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women. Our imperfections are going to accompany us to the grave. We can't go anywhere without having our feet on the ground: yet if we fall, we don't just lie there, sprawled in the dust. On the other hand, we mustn't think we can fly, for we are like little chicks who don't have wings yet. We die little by little; so our imperfections must die with us, a little each day."

In the next week, let us continue to humble ourselves before our God and own our imperfections. Let us not be discouraged by them but be comforted by the fact that the Lord knows about them. Let us continue to seek his help, let us persist; let us persevere.

Have a blessed Holy Week!

In Christ,
Fr. Christian