Palm Sunday

Three processions entered Jerusalem on a spring day in the year 30. It was the beginning of the week of Passover, the most sacred week of the Jewish year. In the centuries since, Christians have celebrated this day as Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week. With its climax of Good Friday and Easter, it is the most sacred week of the Christian year.

• From the South came Caiaphas with the sacred procession of the sacrificial lamb – the leaders of the church in spiritual splendor with robes and incense, sacred music. 
• From the west came Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Idumea, Judea, and Samaria, entering Jerusalem at the head of a column of imperial cavalry and soldiers. This is the parade of the power of empire. 
• From the East, riding down the mount of Olives on a donkey surrounded by children waving branches from the trees is a peasant procession led by the Galilean teacher Jesus.

Join us this week as we tell the Palm and Passion story and choose:

Which procession shall we join? Whom will we follow?