Questions concerning Palm Sunday

Questions concerning Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday, the Sunday preceding Easter, commemorates Jesus’ entrance into the city of Jerusalem and is also called the Triumphal Entry. The event, full of contrasts, raises several questions with great implications for our lives—questions that impart important lessons. First, what characterizes a triumphal life? One might wonder why the Church calls this event the Triumphal Entry when there was nothing triumphant about it. To be sure, on that …