The resurrection of Jesus makes sense of the tragedy, humiliation, and scandal of crucifixion in that the final authority is not death, evil, and hatred; rather, the final authority is life, love, and compassion. The resurrection of Jesus foreshadows the restoration of us and the world in complete unity and harmony with God and one […]
The great contrast of Palm-Passion Sunday is the glorious, jubilant entrance with Jesus leaving Jerusalem to Golgotha bearing the cross a few days later. The crowd that had joyously received him ridiculed and rejected him viciously as he bore the cross to Calvary. The disciples flee but his mother and a few other women watch […]
Let us pray to God who sent us Jesus to reveal God’s love to us: Lord Jesus, though mocked and derided, you were not put to shame; though beaten and pat upon, you were not disgraced; though innocent and unjustly crucified, you, the Son of God, have been vindicated by your sinless life and exalted […]
