ACC ~ Mark 11 v8b

THE TRIBUTE OF THEIR VOICES

JEROME: And others cut boughs … and strewed them in the way. They cut branches from the fruitbearing trees with which the Mount of Olives was planted, and spread them in the way; so as to make the crooked ways straight, and the rough ways smooth, that Christ the conqueror of sin might walk straightly and safely into the hearts of the faithful. … And when they had done all that was to be done by their hands, they offered also the tribute of their voices; and going before and following after they cry, not in a brief and wordless confession, but with all their might: “Hosanna to the son of David. Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.” HOMILIES 94. [1]

[1] Cetedoc 0590, 3.122; Mt 21:9; cf. Mk 11:9; Lk 19:38; Jn 12:13. SSGF 2:174; CCL 77:184.

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