Scripture Reflections for Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion

“This week we enter again into this sacred space, so that we can see that there are no places in human life that the creativity of our God cannot touch and enliven, drawing us into Christ, the true rock on which all our hopes can be built”

"In our Gospel reading for the Palm Sunday procession, Jesus sends his disciples into Jerusalem to prepare for his triumphal entry. They are told to untether a donkey, and if..."

“What's the purpose of Christian life? It's to find ourselves, sinners who have wandered far away from God, to find ourselves once again brought back to the right praise of the Father. How do we do that? By making Jesus our Lord.”

“On this Palm Sunday, we can prepare for the joy of Easter by meditating on Jesus’ ultimate act of mercy. In seeing Christ in the prisoner, may we work to uphold the rights and dignity of all whom society has rejected.”

“Enter into the mystery of a God who loves us so much, that he gives his life to both pay the price of our sins and to demonstrate for us HOW to make good overcome evil. Go to church. Pray. Ponder. Love.”

“We follow him in hope, and do not fear what may be behind us, or we shouldn’t”

“the Israelites needed the journey – those 40 years in the desert – to bring them together as a people and build a faith. We need the Way of the Cross to make us stronger and better.”

“Perhaps Herod can be a counter-example for us. If we are always seeking our own advantage, in family, financial or even religious issues, then we end up only being able to think of ourselves. Integrity and mercy are values, virtues that we are then unable to live.”

"Jennifer King is a proud person and descendant of four aboriginal clan groups, Butchella of K’gari (Fraser Island), Djiribul of Innisfail, Gugu Yimmithir of Hopevale, and Western Yalanji of Laura..."

"The Word entered into our flesh in order to bring the love and justice of God even to the darkest places. Jesus stands shoulder to shoulder with sinners in the..."

“The Christian life is, in fact, in constant tension between suffering death and being raised to new life. We can’t hold on to our lives as Christians: the only path forward is constant consent to our own interior (and sometimes exterior) deaths, which constantly leads to interior (and ultimately bodily) resurrection.”

“although pain is real, it becomes bearable when shared, when accompanied with love, care, and concern”

“God does not need our abilities to do what only He can do. He desires our willingness to share in what only He can do. Only the genuinely humble consider God and what God can do.”

“How do we form community with each other when our very talents and achievement are cause for jealousy and resentment, when they’re sources of envy and weapons of competition? How do we love each other when our competitive spirits make us see each other as rivals?”

“In his painful journey to Calvary Jesus’ concern was for others”

“As we celebrate Palm Sunday we are called to identify with those who joyfully welcomed Jesus as the promised Messiah. But as we hear today’s Passion Narrative we must accept Jesus’ understanding of what that role really meant. We must accept Him on His own terms, not ours!”

“There are so many people who are happy to accompany Jesus on his journey into Jerusalem by embracing – or at least, thinking that they embrace – his teaching. But when the cheering and clapping has died down, do we stay with him?”

"We have followed our Lenten journey from the far north up to the gates of Jerusalem, and now the Great Week begins. At each stop on the road – at..."

"Today the Church proclaims the Passion of Christ. The story of the Lord’s suffering and death haunted the minds of the first Christians. All the Gospels center around it and..."