“As Jesus is greeted with palm branches today while riding up into the Holy City, these famous lines from the poetry of Robert Frost could well be applied to him:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

The choice of the road that Jesus would travel was confirmed in the olive garden of Gethsemane. In fact, it was three years earlier, at his baptism, when he first chose that road.

… While tempted to bolt, however, do not detour onto that crowded “more traveled” road. Instead, remain faithful to Jesus as a good student during these days of Holy Week.”

For the rest of this powerful meditation by Father Ed Hays visit http://ncronline.org/blogs/spiritual-reflections/passion-sunday

(The graphic is from The Gospel Life of Jesus, with the Bidá Illustrations, by Edward Eggleston (1874). The graphic has been provided free of charge by scholia.net. For more resources visit the scholia.net website.)