Visit a Cemetery
In the long-form of today’s Gospel, Jesus is laid in a tomb. Visit a local cemetery to pay respect for the faithfully departed. Visit someone you know personally or someone else for whom you can offer prayers. Clean up the gravesite and offer this prayer for them: Eternal rest grant to him/her, O Lord; and let perpetual light shine upon him/her. May the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
Prayer before a Crucifix
Listen and reflect on the African Spiritual, Were You There. You should be able to find the song on YouTube or wherever you stream music. When you are done, pray this prayer in front of a crucifix in your home:
Look down upon me, good and gentle Jesus,
While before your face I humbly kneel
And with burning soul, pray and beseech you,
To fix deep in my heart,
Lively sentiments of faith, hope and charity,
True contrition for my sins
And a firm purpose of amendment.
While I contemplate with great love and tender pity,
Your five most precious wounds,
Pondering over them within me,
And calling to mind the words that David, your prophet, said of you, my Jesus,
"They have pierced My hands and feet, They have numbered all my bones."
Amen.
Red is the liturgical color for Palm Sunday. Where do you see red at Mass today?
Pray
the Stations of the Cross as a family or attend the Liturgy of the Lord's
Passion at your parish.
When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the crowd spreads cloaks on the road before him. To spread cloaks on the road was an ancient gesture of homage before a newly crowned king.
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