P. So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council, and said, —What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. If we let him go on thus, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation.

Choir: But one of them, Caiaphas who was high priest that year, said to them, —You know nothing at all; you do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people and that the whole nation should not perish—. So from that day on they took counsel how to put Him to death, for as they said: —The Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation—.

P. With hyssop sprinkle me, o Lord, and I shall be cleansed. Wash me and I shall be whiter than the snow.
May my prayer before You be counted as incense and the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.

Choir: Children of the Hebrews, bearing branches of olive went out to meet the Lord, crying: Hosanna in the highest! Children of the Hebrews spread their garments on the road and cried out saying: Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.

P. And when they drew near to Jerusalem, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them: —Go into the village opposite you, where you will find an ass tied and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to Me. If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, —The Lord has need of them!— The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them; they brought the ass and the colt and put their garments on them and He sat thereon. Most of the crowd spread their garments on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road and the crowds who went before Him and that followed shouted,

Choir: Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! O King of Israel: Hosanna in the highest!