Father Charles Singer’s Prayer for Palm Sunday “To take a branch is to make the decision to go out following Jesus”

“Taking a branch is an invitation addressed to Christ: “come, You can pass through the gates of the city. What You say and what You do, I put in my life, because I believe that You are God who came to invite me to be happy.” To take a branch is to make the decision to go out following Jesus... It is a free approach, it is a gesture of a believer, a choice. Coming to get a branch, taking it, holding it in your hand and keeping it in plain sight at home is deciding to open the door to the Gospel and to welcome God through concrete gestures towards our brothers every day. Amen. »