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Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion

Join us at our Saturday mass, at 4:30 p.m., in the Sanctuary or on Zoom. The passcode to enter is: liturgy. Please mute yourselves upon entering. This week’s worship aid is found here.

This week’s readings remind me of daily life. Like Jesus, sometimes we are at the highest points, only to come to a time of suffering. Some faith traditions include only the palms, but ours combines the day of adulation with the day of salvation. I find the contrast poignant. Both gospel readings this week are from Matthew, but they depict a fully human Jesus who wants only to glorify God, not himself, doggedly trying to point the way to God’s kingdom, only to be caught in the trap of the Roman regime and the Hebrew subject-state. Just as today, the world has leaders who will do anything to make themselves more powerful and richer, but they are only paper tigers when it comes to the real power and glory of our God. We can either remain enslaved to the world’s leaders or celebrate the freedom of God’s kingdom.

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