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Palm Sunday

So, it is Palm Sunday, one of the high days in the Christian calendar, it suffers from being close to Easter so it’s date changes every year; but it’s sort of linked so there is no getting round the issue really. I have attended quite a few services celebrating “Palm Sunday” over the years and the vast majority have tended to focus on a celebratory theme, telling the story of how Jesus rode triumphantly into Jerusalem serenaded by crowds of people shouting out Hosannah, and Blessed is the son of David. You can picture it now, a nice spring morning with dew settled on the grass, perhaps the sun burning off the dew in a morning mist when over the hill comes Jesus, side saddle on a donkey, wearing regulation white toga cum nighty, long golden hair caught in the breeze creating a halo effect. Or perhaps not. I want to invite you to join me on our own pilgrimage to Jerusalem, but set in the 1 st Century and to try and see the events with 1 st Century eyes