A time of Lexio devena for the discerning heart.

Palm Sunday.

As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly.

For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of the stay to the Lord. The Say slowly from your heart, Jesus, I trust in you.

You take over.

become aware that he is with you, looking upon you with love, wanting to be heard deep within your heart.

A reading from the Holy Gospel of St. Matthew, chapter 21, verses 1 through 11.

When they drew near to Jerusalem, it came to Bethpage, to the Mount of Olives. Jesus sent two

disciples, saying to them, go into the village facing you, and immediately you will find an ass tied and a colt with her,

untie them and bring them to me.

If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, the Lord has need of them, and he will send them immediately.

This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophets, saying,

Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on an ass,

and on a colt, the full of an ass. The disciples went and did as Jesus directed them.

They brought the ass and the colt, and put their garments on them, and he sat thereon. They brought the ass and the colt and put their garments on them and he sat there on.

Most of the crowds spread over their garments on the road and others cut branches from the trees

and spread them on the road. And the crowds that went before him and that followed him shouted

Hosanna to the son of David.

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord,

Hosanna in the highest.

And when he entered Jerusalem,

all the city was stirred saying,

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