Our Lord wept over Jerusalem, but what about this:

Police Officer Lorie Minot talks with Jason Pennington from Wild 95.5, who rode Paco, the donkey, over the Royal Park Bridge from West Palm Beach Wednesday morning. Minot gave him a verbal warning not to bring a donkey to the island again. Photo by Kelley Fernandez

My last Palm Sunday piece concerned the custom of the palm crosses at Bethesda-by-the-Sea.  Evidently it’s just as well Bethesda stuck with palm crosses; a real triumphal entry into Palm Beach would have been met, not by the Pharisees, but the Palm Beach police.  And it would have been about the donkey.

Or would it?  Maybe the parable about the rich man and Lazarus is just too much for the place…