Gospel according to Luke 19, 28-40
At that time, Jesus with his disciples, on his way to Jerusalem, and as he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying: “Go to the village that is in front of you . Upon entering, find a colt tied which no one has ever sat untie it and bring here If someone asks you why you untying it, tell him… ‘The Lord needs it,’ “
they went and found it as the Lord had said. As they were untying the donkey, its owners asked them, “Why do you untie?” They replied, “The Lord needs it.”
they are therefore brought the donkey, threw him over the mantles and did Jesus ride in it. As progressed, people carpeted the road with their garments, and when was near the descent of Mt. of Olives, the crowd of disciples, excited, began to praise God loudly for all the miracles they had seen, saying, “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest “Some Pharisees who were among the people, said to him:” Teacher, rebuke your disciples. ” He answered them, “I assure you that if they keep quiet, the stones will cry”
Word of the Lord.. . Praise to you, Lord Jesus
On this Palm Sunday, the beginning and porch of Holy Week, move between songs of jubilation, hallelujah, cheers and bouquets, hailing who is King of our lives: Jesus of Nazareth. In this Year of Mercy, Palm Sunday, reaches its highest meaning: God’s mercy comes to us. It does about colt and amid praises. These days, the mercy of God, will be sold, denied, abused, humiliated, killed and resurrected. And, already said John of the Cross: “On the evening of life we examine Love”. Easter, in a way, is a test that we provide to every Christian: Are you Easter Lord with all that that implies wherever you find ‘
On Palm Sunday has,. also other connotations that make us recover and feel the soul of the child in all of us.
Faced with so many gods that look like gold and cardboard that the world presents to us as idyllic, this festival makes us put eyes on the Lord and King. At that, among other things, we nourishes hope in moments of despair, food when we see that the bread of the world will not enough and thirst for eternity when the recipients of this capricious society, not satiate us spiritual hunger.
on Palm Sunday is a cross of sensations: walks through the door of God’s mercy (to be acclaimed) and will go through (on Good Friday) no company that John and Mary <. / p>
other, as many of us do it for the remainder of the year, look, we’ll look at the cross (with Christ included) from afar.
Basically, Palm Sunday, it is the eve of loneliness and betrayal, the power of a great King who apparently is defeated on the cross, the contradiction of those who love him say, but in difficult situations, we lay back. Palm Sunday is the carpet easy road but on Good Friday, is the uphill love is worth.
Today the mercy of God, which comes to meet our miseries and banes, straddles a donkey. It does so with humility and without noise. Instead, our “tender mercies” often wrap in notoriety and pride forgetting that the Servant of the servants, shows us a way to make visible our delivery. Humiliation and silence
We sing and sing along . on this day
But it is also true that the heart invites us to shout: Do not go up, because if you go up, you make me follow and suffering is not in our life plans. Proclaim in the beginning of Holy Week that in this so empty of moral, social, political and economic elements world, Jesus gives us some clues to turn this reality into a paradise.
Pope Francis, long ago, he said: “Some people are determined to make this land a hell, lead us into a third world war.” That Easter we celebrate is a reason to look up at the sky, broaden our minds, affirm our hope and reveal us for those situations that require our presence on the colt of humility, service, love, generosity or under.
we prepare the way of the Cross for Easter that we will live and today the Word of God tells us through the prophet Isaiah: “the Lord has given me a tongue started to learn to say the despondent one word of encouragement “(Is 50: 4). The prophet sees the figure of the Servant of Yahweh. In several poems dramatic rise inspiration, this mysterious character, suffering extremely for the redemption of men appears before our eyes. He liked the bitter and sour taste death. He has experienced in his flesh the sharp laceration of human pain.
So is able to sympathize with the misery of the wounded, able to tell who is killed a word of encouragement man.
the long hours of the night in the hospital plaintive silence, insomnia those who watch the suffering of loved ones, bodies slowly become extinct or shrink in the stabbing pain. Look at them, Lord, look at them from your cross. Say to them a word of encouragement, comforts her grief. You who know what it is to suffer, have pity on those who suffer. And another.
Those who carry their pain inside. That pain is not seen, which pierces the soul. Ingratitude, contempt, empty life, the sad feeling of worthlessness. Those also tell them a word of comfort. Let them see the meaning of suffering.
Encourage them to accept the test as you did. We are at the beginning of Holy Week, let us contemplate the suffering and death of our Lord, to remember everything he did for us and encourage us to love him more and do something, or much, for him.
this starts the clear exposition of the great lesson of his life, encourages us to follow him closely, not only at the time of the triumph of the branches, but also in the difficult moments of the ordeal.
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