Welcome to St. Anthony’s for this glorious Hosanna Sunday! From the inside of our church Jesus Christ shines upon all us all.
   We cast our palms before His glorious entrance into the Holy City, as we are advancing behind Him, and we take those palms home to place on our walls for the rest of the year. We admit that someone greater than us governs the world, and all will be well in the end. Things have a way of working out, because Someone up there is governing the universe. Let us throw our palms before Him this Sunday, and persevere in practicing that faith throughout the year.
   Christ’s approval rating is 100% today on his triumphal entrance to the Holy City; by Thursday almost everyone is calling for his bloody execution. The same voices of “Long Live the King”! Became Crucify Him & free Barabas! What happened!? 
   We humans without intentional discipleship and a founded commitment in the act of faith in God, we become easily manipulated by the popular ideology, whether political, moral religious or social. We become like sheep without a shepherd. You are not OK, and I am not OK, but that’s OK because we have a heavenly Father a Good Shepherded and the Spirit of truth, who welcomes us into His home, the place where The King awaits us in the most Blessed Sacrament. Give yourself an hour with Him over this passion week, in the Mystery of His Real Presence on Holy Thursday. 
   In his Passion, Christ paid no attention to judgment of this world. His eyes were fixed on His Father and the Divine Will. We who participate in this Hosanna Sunday Liturgy must follow him, both in triumph and in disgrace. We must follow him in life, and follow him in death. Nothing matters in this life beyond following Him. With Our Lady and St. John, we summon the courage and stamina to walk behind him, step by step through this Passion Week, armed with prayer and penance and charity.