This reflection for Palm Sunday opens with the Church's prayer over the palms — that what we outwardly perform today we may spiritually complete — and explores what it means to enter Holy Week holding both the Hosanna and the Passion together. Drawing on Saint Paul's kenosis hymn in Philippians, Saint Leo the Great's description of how majesty took on humility and eternity took on mortality, and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux's reflection on Christ's self-giving entry into Jerusalem, we reflect on the kind of King who arrives on a donkey, the chalice He drank in Gethsemane, and what it means for us to be drawn — not just as witnesses, but as participants — into the Passion.

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