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Greetings young Squire Sprouts.

Today is the 24th day in the third month in the year of our Lord,

2024.

My name is Sir Roland Paterlot, and you're listening to Sundays with Sir Rowland on Catholic

Sprouts, where every Sunday during Lent, we discuss the Sunday readings through the lens

of dragon slain.

Well, young sprouts,

here we are. The beginning of the holiest week of the year, Palm Sunday. Today at Mass, we will receive palm branches. When Jesus rode on a donkey into Jerusalem, the people waved palm branches.

And at the beginning of the Mass, the priest will bless our palm branches that we get to take home.

Many people make crosses or all kinds of cool shapes out of their palms and hang them on a picture frame or around a crucifix.

The palms are actually what the church uses to create ashes for Ash Wednesday.

The gospel reading today is actually a reading of the whole passion account, so be prepared to stand for quite a long time. But don't feel

too sorry for yourself, because standing for 10 or 15 minutes is nothing compared to what Jesus had

to go through in the story. The passion narrative is the climax of the entire story of salvation

history. Everything is building to this agonizing, terrifying, excruciating, and most glorious point in human history,

where Jesus faces, fights, and defeats every dragon, including death itself.

In the first reading, Isaiah the prophet talks about how he had to fulfill the mission of proclaiming God's word to the people,

even though he was harshly treated and persecuted.

Isaiah persevered in doing the right thing, even when it was hard, and he was a foreshadowing of Jesus himself.

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