Remembrance, Reenactment, and Relationship

Today, the Church celebrates Palm Sunday, sometimes known as the Sunday of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ.  We gather before the service away from the Church to form a procession into the Nave.  We then hear the Passion of our Lord as told be the Gospel according to Saint Luke.  And we bury Jesus.  But why do we do this?  Why do we reenact all of this drama?  And what does all of this mean for us?  Father Blackburn's sermon for this Palm Sunday asks us to draw nearer in Christ and into deeper relationship with him.