Palm Sunday 2023

April, 2nd

The Holy Week begins with the celebration of Palm Sunday.

On Palm Sunday we remember the messianic entry of Jesus in Jerusalem; many enthusiastic people holding palms and olive branches flocked to acclaim him shouting: "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, blessed is the King of Israel!" (Jn 12:13). However, Jesus knows very well that in a few hours that shouting will become: "Crucify him!" He will go through a journey that will take him to loneliness and rejection: the Christ makes a gift out of His death for the salvation of men, He want to be recognized as the Messiah in the Passion and Death of the Cross. He is the King without a crown meeting the misery of his people to reopen the Heaven to all who will accept salvation.