Almighty and everlasting God, in your tender love for us you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon himself our nature, and to suffer death upon the Cross, giving us the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant that we may walk in the way of his suffering, and come to share in his resurrection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.

'Jesus said, 'The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you.''
John 12: 35 pic.twitter.com/zA4LVqFmOR

— Westminster Abbey (@wabbey) March 23, 2024

And when he drew near and saw the city he wept over it, saying, “Would that even today you knew the things that make for peace! But now they are hid from your eyes. For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will cast up a bank about you and surround you, and hem you in on every side, and dash you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you; because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a den of robbers.”

And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people sought to destroy him; but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people hung upon his words.

–Luke 19:41-48

Today is Palm Sunday. Christ enters Jerusalem on a young colt, in a 14th Century wall painting at North Cove, Suffolk. A crowd cheers from the top of the city gate, and one of them lays a garment down for the colt to walk on.

North Cove has some of the best medieval wall… pic.twitter.com/sQRfHao51Y

— Simon Knott (@SimoninSuffolk) March 24, 2024