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(copyright \u00a9 2011 Reformed Church Press)<\/p>\n

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\u201cAlthough aware of the danger, Jesus at a certain point \u2018set[s] his face to go to Jerusalem\u2019 (Luke 9:51). Later, after he raises Lazarus, the threats against him intensify into a death plot. Now he arrives in the city with its teeming pilgrims and hostile Pharisees. As we rehearse his messianic entrance on this last Sunday of Lent, we sing with exuberance and we wince with foreboding. \u2018Hosanna! Hosanna!\u2019 actually expresses both impulses\u2013our joyous praise to the King and our humble plea for a Savior\u2013since the literal meaning of hosanna is \u2018Save, I pray.\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0It is a fitting way to start a holy week.\u201d<\/p>\n

From\u00a0Living the Christian Year<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>by Bobby Gross, 159 (emphasis mine)<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s Palm Sunday in the abbey. The monks have invited their guests to join them in the procession into church. Four girls, their catechism teachers, and myself. It\u2019s a rag-tag procession, and the children wave their palms self-consciously. No matter. It will have to do. The hour is on us.<\/em><\/p>\n

At Mass I stand alongside the youngest girl. She stares at the celebrant as if at a flame, her eyes wander around the great candy box of a church, its pretty angels and painted vines, lilies spinning around the Christ Child. She seems to be too young for the first communion, but she\u2019s careful to do what everyone else does, which is mostly standing still.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yet we move, and change. Her life crosses mine, and there is no name for it. The quantum effect. Communion. At about her age I refused to believe that Jesus dies; I wonder if I believe it yet. I wonder what what she knows of death, if she, too, will run from pain, to a dark beyond telling, if she will find God there, for the touching and tasting.<\/em><\/p>\n

The girl stares at her hands where bread has fallen as if from heaven, and looks around wildly, face aflame. \u201cDo I eat this?\u201d she wonders, half-aloud. \u201cYes,\u201d I whisper. \u201cYes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

From\u00a0The Cloister Walk<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Kathleen Norris, 173<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"