Palm Sunday

I once expressed my difficulty with the Episcopal Palm Sunday service. We have the profession of Palms and all its fun and celebration and then we spoil it all by reading the Passion and Jesus’s trial, condemnation, and crucifixion. In the end its a real downer.

My good friend said that’s exactly the point.
Jubilation is overtaken by suffering. A triumphal procession turns into a funeral parade.
Easter is about the victory of Christ’s resurrection as being one of weakness over strength, of love over scarcity and self-preservation.
But today we begin Holy Week, and the chance to experience our faith laid bare, with nothing to distract us from the love of God.

About the author

Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.

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