My daughter Rebecca is fascinated with astronomy. So this past Christmas we bought her a telescope. And the telescope came with an eyepiece. So you aim the telescope up at the sky and you look through the eyepiece. And it was just incredible what we were able to see. The moon seemed so much closer and some of the stars in the sky, some of the planets, you could see a little more clearly. It was a fascinating experience; it was nearly a spiritual experience…

As we progress through this Holy Week we will continue to walk through the events that have been described in the passion reading, ultimately leading us to next Sunday with the celebration of the resurrection. What I’d like to do this morning is to share a few thoughts, not so much on the passion reading, but on the gospel reading that we read outside with the blessing of the palms, from Mark’s gospel about Palm Sunday…