Palm Sunday

Today is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week, the most important week of the year for Catholics everywhere. During Holy Week, we remember, celebrate and live with our Lord His Passion and Death that He suffered for us and His triumphant Resurrection on Easter for our eternal salvation.

Once a month, I am privileged to participate in Sunday's liturgy together with the second grade religious education class. As director of our parish program, it is my responsibility to evaluate the children's readiness to receive the sacraments of Reconciliation and Communion for the first time. So "class Mass" every month is one way I measure their spiritual growth. It was truly a blessing today-palm fronds waving in the air and tickling each other, sighs and restlessness during the extraordinarily long liturgy, little voices lifted in prayer and song....the Lord is good to me!