“We who have been baptized into Christ must ourselves be the garments that we spread before him” (Saint Andrew of Crete, bishop)
Accompanying the Lord to Calvary
Today is Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday. It is the Sunday before Easter and the beginning of Holy Week. This Sunday brings two traditions in focus. First is the Jerusalem tradition of blessings and processing with psalms, recalling the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. The second is the Roman tradition of making a solemn proclamation of “the Passion,” to start Holy Week.
In today’s Gospel, we read the Passion of Christ which includes the Last Supper, His agony in Gethsemane, His arrest and trial, His scourging, His carrying of the cross, His crucifixion, and His death. The Church teaches that “all sinners” are the authors and ministers of all the sufferings that Christ endured (CCC 598). The Church also, in line with Apostolic tradition, teaches that Christ died for all men without exception (CCC 605).The Passion of Christ is part of God’s eternal plan of salvation from the beginning. “The passion of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is the hope of glory and a lesson in patience” (St. Augustine).
Hence, as we celebrate Palm Sunday today, “let us spread before his feet, not garments or soulless olive branches, which delight the eye for a few hours and then wither, but ourselves, clothed in his grace, or rather, clothed completely in him” (Saint Andrew of Crete, bishop).
~Fr. Augustine
Stations of the Cross after 5:30 pm mass every Friday during Lent.
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