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My Dear Parishioners;

Today we journey with the Lord into the City of Jerusalem. The blessed palm branches remind us of that triumphant entry but also of His desire to enter our minds and hearts. Today’s liturgy begins with a festive air as “the children of the Hebrews bearing olive branches go to meet the Lord crying ‘Hosanna in the highest’.” How somberly it concludes after a reading of the Lord’s Passion. How fast the mood changes! Jesus in short time experiences the love and joy of His people; yet in the same liturgy we express the other side of the human situation; betrayal, rejection, and the physical sufferings that seems to conclude in death. In our own lives, we often suffer many elements of the Lord’s Passion.

Jesus is the human face of God and therefore His death indicates God’s unbounded love for us, even to dying for us! Yet Jesus’ death will not be the final chapter of His life, Jesus gave His life so that we might receive Life. Consequently we conduct our lives so as to identify fully with Him in the Great Mystery that we celebrate next Saturday evening at the Easter Vigil. Though human suffering is real, it does not have the last word. Through Christ, the Master of life offers us a share in His life. The next few days focus us on the most intimate mysteries of faith.

Let us pray that these sacred days enrich our faith and restore our souls as we journey with Jesus through Holy Week to the Glory of Easter Sunday.

Monsignor John A. McGuirl

 

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