Note to Readers: I am posting Palm Sunday Today (chapter 32). I will post the rest of Holy Week on the appropriate days. 32A on Thursday; 32B on Good Friday and 32C on Holy Saturday.

March 25 Chapter 32 Peace March (Palm Sunday)
      I love Holy Week. I love the highs and the lows, the triumphs and the tragedies. We begin as we do all Holy Weeks with Palm Sunday.
       I like the comparison McLaren makes between Jesus' humble entry on the East side of Jerusalem, simple, humble, riding on a colt of a donkey and how Herod would enter that same city on the other side: on a warhorse surrounded with chariots. Imagining those two entries we really can see the difference between the power that Jesus has with the power that Herod has. One power built on a promise of peace and the other power built on fear.
      I am reminded of the young people who stand today speaking for life, be it the pro-life march commemorating Roe V Wade or the recent pro-life marches asking for a path to citizenship for dreamers or protesting gun violence on our schools. They have no power compared to the NRA, the President, Congress or even their school administrators, but they walk none the less calling us to imagine a better world.
     I am reminded of Dorothy Day, St. Teresa of Kolkata, Archbishop Oscar Romero and others who chose the path to peace over the path to power.
     And as I think about all that I have to ask myself what kind of Palm Sunday parade am I walking with my life? It is a challenge for me as I start this Holy Week.