It is Palm Sunday, one week before Easter. Why is it called Palm Sunday? Please read the article below.
Church visitation group had a wonderful time to celebrate
Easter at Covenant Nursing Home.
After lunch, the members of the group was practicing with
Leo, Hiroko’s best friend’s husband. He
is very good guitar player.
Here is the meeting room at the nursing home.
There weren't many residents attending, yet, because the
church group had arrived a little bit early.
The church visitation group started to visit this nursing home since
last Christmas, and we usually visit them around 2:30.
Leo was adjusting his guitar. Others were waiting and talking.
The residents started coming one by one. There was not so many residents at this
time.
Here started singing.
The numbers of the Church group seemed more than the
residents. It was happy to see the
residents enjoying singing Easter Hymns and old songs. 13 songs were sung. Leo sung some old song by himself. Thanks to Leo.
It was time to finish and to go home.
After the singing the Nursing home provided us coffee, tea,
water, and cookies. The Pastor of the
Nursing Home said thanks to us for visiting them. We gave thanks to them for inviting us and
their concern to quench our thirst.
Palm Sunday:
Palm Sunday is the day we celebrate Jesus’ arrival in
Jerusalem. This happened over 2,000
years ago. Jesus borrowed a donkey that
had never been ridden before, and He slowly made His way into the city of
Jerusalem. As Jesus rode along, the
people cheered for Him. They loved Him
because of all the miracles they had seen Him perform. They thought Jesus was riding into the city
to become a king. They were hoping He
would be the king who would bring peace and power to the entire Jewish
nation. The people pulled down branches
from the palm trees along the road, and spread them in front of Jesus to honor
Him. They waved palm branches too and
they shouted, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.” They even took off their coasts, and laid
them on the road as Jesus traveled.
If all the people wanted to make Jesus king, why was He
crucified a few days later?
Jesus knew that His Kingdom was not going to be like an
earthly kingdom, but some of the people don’t know that. Jesus knew that He was going to die to save
them from their sins. God used the
celebration of all the people to demonstrate that Jesus really was the Son of
God. Even though the cross where Jesus
died seemed very bad, it really is good news today because we all can live
together forever just because Jesus died and took the punishment for our sins.
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