On Passion (Palm) Sunday, we gather as a community in Jesus’ love and sacrifice, to anticipate the great events of our salvation, and listen again to the story of how we are saved by God in Christ. We live the dying and rising of our Redeemer daily in our losses and pain, our joys and accomplishments. We unite with the Lord’s passion, a perpetual gift of God’s endless love, and view all that happens to us in the shadow and light of that mystifying core conviction – that in dying and death we find ultimate life.
As we enter Holy Week, make it your priority to carve out time to remember and relive all that has happened from God to offer life now and beyond this world. Be counted among his members when Holy Thursday evening the worldwide Church assembles to remember the saving act of Christ in the enduring gift of the Eucharist. Keep vigil with Christ on Good Friday, who in agony completes the will of His Father in total surrender. On Saturday evening, in the empty stillness of death and solitude, in union with all whose tombs are made holy by their victorious earthly lives, await the triumphant Redeemer God Hero, who opens the graves of all believers by his conquest of sin, death and evil. Awaken Easter Sunday in joyful and glorious awareness of our life in God, never the same because of Him who saves, loves and lives.
Bow your heads as we ask God to bless these human and saving events that tell the story of how much He loves us now and forever.
May Easter fill your hearts with joy and wonder in God and His Son alive!