Palm Sunday (2)

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 …