'Tell the daughter of Zion, Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey'
Zechariah 9:9
These phophetic words were spoken by Zechariah 500 years before Jesus and are the key to understanding Palm Sunday. Your king has arrived, and he is a king who destroys the weapons of war, a king of peace and a king of simplicity, a king of the poor and marginalized. He reigns over a kingdom that stretches from sea to sea, embracing the whole world.
'And throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it'
Luke 19: 28-40
The expression used by David on how his son Solomon must be anointed king. (1 Kings 1: 33-34)
The pilgrims who came to Jerusalem with Jesus are caught up in the disciples’ enthusiasm. They now spread their garments on the street along which Jesus passes. They pluck branches from the trees and cry out verses from Psalm 118, words of blessing from Israel’s Pilgrim Liturgy, which on their lips become a Messianic proclamation: Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the Kingdom of our father David that is coming! Hosanna in the highest!
Brothers and Sisters in Christ, as pilgrims, together with the King, we enter into the definitive Jerusalem that is already growing in the midst of this world, the Kingdom of Heaven, in a communion that unites us with his body. Let us rejoice!
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