The crowds lining the way into Jerusalem acclaim Jesus.
And St. Paul writes that Jesus has been exalted by God, because He offered Himself, suffering and dying in the most awful way, that we would be saved from sin.
So while Christ agonized over His coming suffering and death in the Garden of Gethsemane, He entrusted Himself to God, in the spirit of the suffering servant in Isaiah 50.
And so we join with Christ in entrusting ourselves to God in the face of all suffering, because we recognize how God can bring redemption out of it. And we move beyond the acclamations that the crowd offered to expressing true faith like the centurion at the crucifixion, noting that before us on the Cross is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Who, by suffering and dying, has brought us back into relationship with God. We obediently open ourselves to God, like Mary did on the day of the Annunciation by Gabriel, and let God work marvelously.
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