Bearing And Walking

Et duxerunt illum ad Jesum. Et jacentes vestimenta sua supra pullum, imposuerunt Jesum. Eunte autem illo, substernebant vestimenta sua in via... Disce a domestico Dei gestare Christum quoniam prius te ille gestabat, cum pastor errantem reduceret ovem: disce sedula mentis tuae dorse substernere, disce esse sub Christo, ut possis esse supra mundum. Non quicumque facile vehit Christum, sed ille qui potest dicere: Incurvatus et humiliatus sum nimis: rugiebam a gemitu cordis mei. Quod si desideras non moveri, super illa vestimenta sanctorum elutum fige vestigium. Cave enim ne lutulentis pedibus incedas, cave ne transversis gressibus, perstrata tibi propheticarum viarum itinera derelinquas; namque ut tutior venturis gentibus esset incessus, propriis indumentis usque ad Dei templum qui praeibant Jesum, semitam munierant. Ut tu sine offensione gradiaris, discipuli Domini amictu se proprii corporis exuentes, inter adversa turbarum viam tibi suo stravere martyrio. Si quis tamen ita vult accipere, non renitimur, quod pullus iste jam supra Judaeorum vestimenta graderetur. Sanctus Ambrosius Mediolanensis, Expositio Evangelii secundum Lucam, Liber IX Source: Migne PL 15.1796

So they brought the colt to Jesus and spreading out their garments on it, placed Jesus on it. Then going with Him, they strewed the road with their garments...1 Learn from the domestic beast of God to carry Christ, because He also carried, as a shepherd bringing back the lost sheep; 2 learn to sustain with the firm backbone of your mind, learn to be beneath Christ, that you may be able to be above the world. No one easily bears Christ unless they are able to say, 'I am bent down and humiliated excessively, I have groaned from the depths of my heart.' 3 If you desire not to be moved, fix your way over the strewn vestments of the saints; beware lest your feet stray into mud, beware lest with wandering steps you forsake the journey the prophetic ways have laid out for you, for with more safety you may walk among the people who with their own covering have preceded you to the temple of God, making sure the way. And that you may walk without fault, strip off the things of your own body for a garment of a disciple of the Lord, He who has laid out before you, on the way amid hostile crowds, His own martyrdom. If He so wishes to receive, let us not resist, for this young one has already trodden on the vestments of the Jews. Saint Ambrose, from the Commentary On The Gospel of Luke, Book 9 1 Lk 19 35-36 2 Lk 15.6 3 Ps 37.9