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Learning God’s Glory on Palm Sunday

March 28, 2021 By Tim Gavin Leave a Comment

For years, when I thought of Palm Sunday, I envisioned Jesus riding into Jerusalem with fanfare, celebration, and glory.

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year Tagged With: Haiti, mission trip, Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday at Home

March 24, 2021 By Wendy Claire Barrie Leave a Comment

For the second year in a row, we’ll not be at church on Palm Sunday, and I won’t be in charge of the donkey.

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Filed Under: Lent Tagged With: Holy Week, Illustrated Children's Ministry, Palm Sunday, palms, Prayer, Wendy Claire Barrie

Liturgical Time Capsule

May 25, 2020 By Carrie Willard 1 Comment

The idea came to me when I was gathering up the stubs of taper candles that we used for our Easter Vigil.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: coronavirus, Easter Vigil, Holy Week, Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday in Extraordinary Times

April 5, 2020 By Sarah Kinney Gaventa 1 Comment

I live in Austin, Texas, where, along with much of the country, I expect to remain under a “Shelter in Place” order during Palm Sunday. What a strange contradiction on a Sunday in which we would ordinarily march around the streets of the church, waving palm branches, and loudly singing, “Hosanna in the highest!”

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year Tagged With: coronavirus, Palm Sunday, palms, parenting, young children

Preparing for Holy Week at Home

April 2, 2020 By Allison Sandlin Liles 6 Comments

Palm Sunday will be here in just a few short days and I am not ready for it. I’m not ready for Holy Week as a priest, as a parent, or as an individual person trying to follow Christ. And yet, it’s coming.

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Filed Under: Easter, Liturgical Year, Parenting, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Easter Vigil, Good Friday, Holy Week, Illustrated Children's Ministry, Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday, palms, young children

Parenting: when every day is Palm Sunday

April 14, 2019 By Sara Irwin 2 Comments

Getting ready for Holy Week, I’m struck, as always, by how jarring the Palm Sunday liturgy is. One minute we’re all shouting “hosanna, hosanna!” (Greek for “save us”) and then the next thing we know, we’re shouting “Crucify him.” It’s emotionally wrenching; hope and expectation give way to fury and fear. No settling in, no probing depths. Our liturgy moves us from place to place, scarcely able to take a breath.

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Palm Sunday, parenting

Preparing Children for the Passion

April 11, 2019 By Melody Wilson Shobe Leave a Comment

It can be difficult for our children to the stories of Holy Week. Here are some tips for preparing children for the Passion.

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year Tagged With: Children in church, death, Easter, Good Friday, Holy Week, Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday, Passion, resurrection

As a recovering perfectionist, I know: there’s no perfect way to “do” Holy Week.

March 21, 2018 By Ann Benton Fraser 4 Comments

This Holy Week, God will be at work in us in ways we cannot yet ask or imagine.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: children, Children in church, Easter, Faith, Family, Good Friday, Holy Week, Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday

Our Holy Week family traditions vary from year to year.

March 17, 2018 By Emily Watkins Leave a Comment

Hope is the word I’m clinging to during this Lent.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Children in church, Easter, Family, Good Friday, Holy Week, Jesus, Lent, Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday

On Palm Sunday: Hey Jesus, won’t you fight for me?

April 9, 2017 By Dorian Del Priore 1 Comment

Palm crosses are an outward and visible sign of the triumph of sacrifice and love.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Liturgical Year Tagged With: cross, Good Friday, Holy Week, Jesus, Lent, love, Palm Sunday, palms

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