This coming Sunday is already the Fifth Sunday in Lent, and in another week Palm Sunday arrives and Holy Week begins. If last Sunday offered us some refreshment and repose, being Laetare Sunday, rejoicing in Jerusalem's renewal and a foretaste of Easter glory, the Fifth Sunday in Lent marks the beginning of Passion-tide, when the statues, images, and crosses in the church are veiled. These signs of the resurrection are covered, because it is now that Jesus consistently vanishes from our sight. His presence is veiled, again and again, for his time has not yet come to do his great work.