Palm Sunday (3)

Today the whole city shakes as Jesus enters Jerusalem with cries of hosanna, joy, and welcome. Then, before long, the earth shakes again as he dies on the cross. In Saint Matthew’s Gospel, the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus are a world-shaking event.

And yet, in …

Homily for the Procession:

Behold the King—yet not the king we imagined. Jesus, astride a humble colt, enters Jerusalem not with the grandeur of military victory but with the quiet resolve of divine purpose. The disciples, rejoicing and spreading cloaks on the road, felt the …

In Matthew’s Gospel which we have just heard and which really needs no explanation, the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus is a world-ending event. We are told of the violent shaking of the earth that was expected to announce the arrival of the end time. The …