Palm Sunday

Pastoral Message of H.G. Bishop Serapion for Palm Sunday

On March 28, 2010, (19 Baramhat 1726 A.M.) the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria celebrates with great joy the Feast of the Lord’s Entry into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday), one of the major feasts of the Church commemorating the entry of our Lord as an earthly King into Jerusalem and as a Heavenly King into our hearts.

Treasures of the Fathers: Palm Sunday

The Donkey and the Colt

Commentary on John, ยง18, ANF, v. 10; Treasures of the Fathers, v. 3.

Now Jesus is the Word of God which goes into the soul that is called Jerusalem, riding on the donkey freed by the disciples from its bonds. That is to say, on the simple language of the Old Testament, interpreted by the two disciples who loose it: in the first place him who applies what is written to the service of the soul and shows the allegorical sense of it with reference to her, and in the second place him who brings to light by the things which lie in shadow the good and true things of the future.

Pastoral Message for Palm Sunday

Pastoral Message of His Grace Bishop Serapion for the Feast of our Lord’s Entry into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday)


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