Hosa'ina be-Gizē Hemāmāt: Save Us Now, in the Time of the Sufferings!
What the West knows as Palm Sunday and Holy Week, is known by the Ethiopians as Hosanna and the Time/Week of the Sufferings. What does that perspective shift offer those of us who would follow Jesus?
Save us now! Hosanna!
Early in my time among the Ethiopian brothers and fathers from whom I learned the faith, one of my spiritual fathers said to me: “What is ‘Palm Sunday?!’”
It wasn’t a question of …
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