Acclaim Him King: Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion
The reality is that as long as we’re on this Earth, there is no real neutral. We’re always headed in one direction or another: either towards God or away from him. As I said in my Ash Wednesday letter, Lent is a time to develop a firm disposition to go towards him.
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The Lenten discipline of almsgiving is one small step in his direction. By giving away our money and time in a season that’s already marked by other sacrifice, we become a little more like him every day.
Saint Ambrose once said that “no one heals himself by wounding another.”