Palm Sunday

"In prosperity be near to Him and obedient, that you may have freedom of speech with Him in trouble because of you constantly being near to Him in your heart by means of your prayer. Sit before His face all your time, thinking of Him and recollecting Him in your heart, lest, seeing Him only after long you should lack freedom of speech with Him on account of bashfulness. A high degree of freedom of speech is born from constant intercourse. Constant intercourse with men is of a bodily nature; that with God is psychic meditation and offerings in prayers" (from The Mystical Treatises of Isaac of Niniveh, Homily 5, 72-73).

Jesus entering Jerusalem by Giotto
(Cappella degli Scrovegni in Padova, Italy)