Quote of the Day (Sister Mary McGlone, on Holy Week and Palm Sunday)

“As we enter the sacred time we call Holy Week, the church overwhelms us with liturgy, Scripture and symbols. Each day has its own particular theme until we reach the climax of the liturgical year in the three-day liturgy we call the Easter triduum. Today's celebration, commonly called Palm Sunday, invites us to contemplate Jesus' last week on Earth, anticipating all that we will relive symbolically Thursday and Friday. Our readings from the Gospel of Mark begin with the crowds' exuberant but shallow adulation and end with Jesus' death on the cross.”—Sister Mary McGlone, “Palm Sunday: Interpreting the Passion,” National Catholic Reporter, Mar. 24, 2018

(The image accompanying this post is Entry into Jerusalem, by the 14^th-century Italian Renaissance painter Giotto di Bondone.)