Palm Sunday March 20, 2016 Luke 22:14-23:49 Earlier this week we had our kids’ Holy Week service. The service starts with Palm Sunday and walks through a lot of the events of Holy Week to put the whole story in context for the kids. We end with a preview of Easter, just so as not to leave the kids in the bleakness of Good Friday. We had the service before Holy Week this year to remove it from spring break when so many families go away. But even in previous years, when it was held during Holy Week, my more liturgically correct friends have sometimes given me a hard time for trying to fit so much into one service. But the proper Episcopal Palm Sunday service today actually prompts us to do pretty much the same thing. We start with Palm Sunday and can choose to use the entire Passion Gospel reading, from Last Supper through Jesus’ burial. The resurrection bit of the Gospel isn’t read today, but you can certainly find hints of it in our Creed and Eucharistic prayers.