And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord:
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The boys in the Gospel raised aloft their branches as the Savior entered Jerusalem. They kept on crying: “Hosanna.” … They borrowed these versicles from Psalm Hosanna,moreover, is the Hebrew for “O Lord, grant salvation!” Homilies