Today is the day we join with the crowds of Jerusalem that acclaimed Jesus as blessed, as a King.
But He was to show Himself to be a different kind of King, by dying for His people, in accordance with the plan of His Father.
He follows in the spirit of the Servant in the first reading from Isaiah, having confidence in the abilities God has given Him, even when faced with attacks.
Like St. Paul writes in the 2nd reading, Christ was God, but stepped back from His High Place, completely emptying Himself, facing off against the worst of humanity in a terrible death, by which we are freed from sin.
Now, He is exalted. And so we join with the crowds to acclaim Him as the King Who saves by suffering.
The Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, said it so well in his homily at Palm Sunday Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
We have hope in the midst of suffering, because Jesus united Himself with suffering to demonstrate His power of redemption.
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