April 13, 2014: Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

At the start of Holy Week, we recount the Passion of Jesus Christ, the agony and suffering He endured at the hands of sinful people.  The first two readings take us deeper:  They reveal that Jesus Christ, although He was God, underwent His Passion in great humility, in submission to the Father's will.  Jesus entrusted Himself to God in the midst of all the mistreatment, knowing God would deliver Him.  And God not only delivered Jesus, but furthermore exalted Him to a high place.  We now praise Him, just like the crowds did as He entered Jerusalem on a donkey, as we remember that by His act of humility, we are delivered.