Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday, or “Passion Sunday”, which unites the royal splendour of Christ with the proclamation of his Passion”(142).

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence celebrates the beginning of Holy Week on Palm Sunday...

Why, then, do you fear to take up the cross when through it you can win a kingdom? In the cross is salvation, in the cross is life . . .

For the fifth week of Lent, Fr. Adam A. Young, Pastor of St. Paul Church, Cranston, Rhode Island, offers this reflection.