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From the discourse \u201cOn the Palm Branches\u201d
by Saint Andrew of Crete<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Let us go together to meet Christ on the Mount of Olives. Today he returns from Bethany and proceeds of his own free will towards his holy and blessed passion .. He who came down from heaven .. to raise us with himself, we are told in Scripture .. now comes of his own free will to make his journey to Jerusalem.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us run to accompany him as he hastens towards his passion, and imitate those who met him then, not by covering his path with garments, olive branches or palms, but by doing all we can to prostrate ourselves before him by being humble and by trying to live as he would wish.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his humility Christ entered the dark regions of our fallen world and he is glad that he became so humble for our sake, glad that he came and lived among us and shared in our nature in order to raise us up again to himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let us spread before his feet, not garments or soulless olive branches, which delight the eye for a few hours and then wither, but ourselves, clothed in his grace, or rather, clothed completely in him. We who have been baptized into Christ must ourselves be the garments that we spread before him. Now that the crimson stains of our sins have been washed away in the saving waters of baptism and we have become white as pure wool, let us present the conqueror of death, not with mere branches of palms but with the real rewards of his victory. Let our souls take the place of the welcoming branches as we join today in the children\u2019s holy song: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Blessed is the king of Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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