If you climb a mountain, you also have to descend a mountain. On Palm Sunday Jesus embodies that descent, both literally and figuratively, as he descends the Mount of Olives on a donkey to the gates of Jerusalem, thronged by his followers. Then on Maundy Thursday, we meet Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, at the base of the Mount of Olives before he ascends the hill called Mt. Calvary, bearing a heavy cross.
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