Palm Sunday



           The evangelists do not report the passion and death of Jesus to play on our emotions. They show us Christ who have up his life for love of all people. The first reading tells us what happens to those who are faithful to the mission God has entrusted to them. The Gospel presents us with the only one who has fully realized in himself the image of servant. The second reading describes the journey of this servant from the Glory of the Father to the humiliation of the death on the cross, to the glorification of his resurrection. This is the path proposed to every person.

           Just as Jesus’ choice for self-sacrificing love, the refusing to compromise God’s values of the reign of God which had directed and empowered him throughout his life and ministry, so now we too are invited to lives of self-sacrificing love, of choosing God’s values, whatever the cost. We now can choose such love because Jesus, our Liberator and Redeemer. The cross is a symbol of Jesus’ self-sacrificing love. Recall times in your life when you experienced this self-sacrificing love from another person. Today, ask God to give you what you need to stand up for the values of the reign of God. But, to remain faithful to God’s values, only trust someone who can see these three things in you: The sorrow behind your smile, the love behind your anger and the reason behind your silence.