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6th Sunday of Lent – B |
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Palm Sunday |
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General. Today’s Liturgy passes us from the
triumphalism of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, greeted by the waiving of palms
by the Jews, to the suffering of his Passion and Death which will be
commemorated throughout the week. The joy of Easter is well nigh as Jesus is
greeted with the words “Hosanna in the highest!” Yet before Jesus is
glorified he lays bare himself before us with a stark example of humility by
taking upon him the horrible death on the cross. Christ teaches patience and
suffering in everyday life, these being two essential qualities pertaining to
the christian, so that through our Baptism we would deserve associating
ourselves with him, in his resurrection, in entering life everlasting. |
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Isaiah. In the Third Hymn of the Servant of
the Lord, we see Jesus as a faithful
disciple of the Father who listens to Him knowing He is ever going to be with
him. He does not in that manner hide His face from insults and spittle, and
calls up courage in the help which God will be giving him. Jesus indeed knows
that God will be giving him the greatest victory by raising him up from the
dead and making him Lord over all creation. |
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Philippians.
St Paul portrays a very limpid picture of what Jesus had really
done when he divested himself from the nature of God and took on the image of
man in all that he felt and did other than sin. By obeying and accomplishing
the Will of the Father when he belittled himself unto death on the cross,
Jesus was giving an example to us who hardly ever belittle and die unto
ourselves by losing any of our rights. |
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Mark. In declaring that Jesus is Lord for the glory of God the Father,
we can do this since Christ has entered the Cross and suffering on our
behalf. He has taken all sins of humanity upon himself, nailed them to the
Holy Rood, and opened up the grave of our misery and death so that we might
be one with him in being raised unto eternal life. Indeed, in the Passion
recount, each one of us can associate himself with any character therein and
meditate on his personal relationship with Jesus in everyday life when seeing
him in his neighbour. |
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