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(The following is only a snip from a great post at Blue Eyed Ennis. With Palm Sunday just ahead of us, I recommend you check it out as part of your preparation for entering the Week we call Holy...)
The crowds joyfully wave palms and lovingly welcome Jesus to Jerusalem in triumph.
In the days to come the tide will turn and these same crowds will want Him dead.
"To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers and hypocrites of every description. It also, at the same time, identifies you with saints and the finest persons of heroic soul of every time, country, race, and gender. To be a member of the church is to carry the mantle of both the worst sin and the finest heroism of soul because the church always looks exactly as it looked at the original crucifixion, God hung among thieves".
– Ronald Rolheiser in The Holy Longing
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