The 5th Sunday in Lent, Passion Sunday, marks the beginning of Passiontide, which is the week leading up to Holy Week. In many churches Passion Sunday is also used for the 6th Sunday in Lent, and It may be the possible confusion caused by this that has led this Sunday to be somewhat downgraded. Indeed, if you google Passion Sunday and click on images, you will be hard pressed to find anything that does not refer to Palm Sunday. This is odd, as Holy Week has Palm Sunday to get it going, and I’m all for continuing with Passion Sunday, which sounds so lovely. That said, the real action begins next week, so stand by for that.