Happy Birthday Nicholas and Jack!

Today we celebrated Nicholas and Jack's Birthdays. What a nice ending to a kind of crazy week.

Monday and Tuesday I had a bad day at work and most of the week Jack was flirting with getting sick.  Every afternoon I had to remind myself that I have a wonderful life, things could be so much worse and work through some serious anxiety.

But today none of that matters. I woke up to kisses from Jack, listened to Nicholas follow along at Mass and celebrated the last 4 years with our family and friends.

Go tell John, today was a gift.

Palm Sunday

Matthew 27: 11 - 54
11	Now Jesus stood before the governor; and the governor asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus said, "You have said so."
12	But when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he made no answer.
13	Then Pilate said to him, "Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?"
14	But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge; so that the governor wondered greatly.
15	Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted.
16	And they had then a notorious prisoner, called Barab'bas.
17	So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release for you, Barab'bas or Jesus who is called Christ?"
18	For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up.
19	Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much over him today in a dream."
20	Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the people to ask for Barab'bas and destroy Jesus.
21	The governor again said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" And they said, "Barab'bas."
22	Pilate said to them, "Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?" They all said, "Let him be crucified."
23	And he said, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Let him be crucified."
24	So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves."
25	And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!"
26	Then he released for them Barab'bas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.
27	Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium, and they gathered the whole battalion before him.
28	And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe upon him,
29	and plaiting a crown of thorns they put it on his head, and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him they mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
30	And they spat upon him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.
31	And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe, and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.
32	As they went out, they came upon a man of Cyre'ne, Simon by name; this man they compelled to carry his cross.
33	And when they came to a place called Gol'gotha (which means the place of a skull),
34	they offered him wine to drink, mingled with gall; but when he tasted it, he would not drink it.
35	And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots;