The Palm/Passion Sunday reports are WONDERFUL...from all over, including a prison, including China.

Read them...and join in.

All I can say is...someday, I want to be part of a Palm Sunday procession that's led by a guy on a horse!

(or a donkey)

Meanwhile...around the world. (click on photos for credits and captions)

(More photos from around the world here.)

Mulund, Bombay - see Gashwin's blog for the full account of this liturgy - at St. George Orthodox Syrian Church . A must-read.

Asuncion, Paraguay:

Bogota:

El Salvador:

Bucharest:

Russia:

Jerusalem:

Spain:

Boston:

East Timor:

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Java:

Manila:

Lebanon:

Managua:

Rome:

With the cross, Jesus opens wide the door of God, the door between God and men. Now it is open. But also from the other side the Lord knocks with his cross: He knocks at the door of the world, at the doors of our hearts, which so often and in such great numbers are closed to God. And he speaks to us more or less in this way: If the proofs that God gives of himself in creation do not succeed in opening you to him; if the word of Scripture and the message of the Church leave you indifferent -- then look at me, your Lord and your God. It is this call that in this hour we let penetrate our hearts. May the Lord help us to open the door of our heart, the heart of the world, so that he, the living God, might, in his Son, arrive in our time and touch our lives. Amen. .