Celebrating the Entrance of our Lord into Jerusalem on the way to His Passion 🌿 “Liturgical celebration is a re-entrance of the Church into the event, and this means not merely its “idea,” but its joy or sadness, its living and concrete reality. It is one thing to know that by crying, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me,” the crucified Christ was manifesting His “kenosis” and His humility. It is quite a different thing to celebrate it every year on that unique Friday on which – without rationalizing it – we know with total certitude that these words, having proffered once, remain eternally real… so that no victory, no glory, no “synthesis” can ever erase them… From the Gospel, we know about it. But it is in the Church’s celebration today that an historical fact becomes an event for us… for me… a power in my life, a memory, a joy.”
–Fr. Alexander Schmemann, Great Lent
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