I am not Catholic, but one of my sons is and he gave me the elegant little book, "Jesus of Nazareth", by Pope Benedict XVI. I read about a paragraph a day so as to try to absorb it, and the paragraph for yesterday just happens to fit very well with the week before Palm Sunday, so I hope the Pope will not mind if I share it, and I quote:

“The great period of preaching at Galilee is at an end and we are now at a decisive milestone: Jesus is setting out on the journey to the Cross and issuing a call to decision that now clearly distinguishes the group of disciples from people who merely listen, without accompanying him on his way - a decision that clearly shapes the disciples into the beginning of Jesus’ new family, the future Church. It is characteristic of this community to be ‘on the way’ with Jesus – what that way involves is about to be made clear. It is also characteristic that the community’s decision to accompany Jesus rests upon a realization- on a ‘knowledge’ of Jesus that gives them a new insight into God, the one God in whom they believe as children of Israel.”