SEE THROUGH

Today is Palm Sunday which opens for us the great days of our salvation. He enters Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover and He is passing over from death to life in anticipation of the resurrection. This is an image of ascending to Jerusalem which is 3,000 ft in latitude coming from the Sea of Galilee. He is fulfilling the Old Testament kingship, in the donkey as He takes Jerusalem in peace and humility. As in Zechariah 9: 9 “Exult greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout for joy, O daughter Jerusalem! Behold: your king is coming to you, a just savior is he, Humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.” God lives in the eternal now not past or future. God has the ability to see through the future. Even before something happens He already knows it because He is God. This alone should make us confident and secure that God knows exactly what we went through, we're going through, and we'll still go through. Since all good things come from God all we have to do is entrust everything to Him and follow whatever He tells us. Has it ever happened to you when people, things and circumstances come into your life as if they were all lined up to happen even before it came to be? The disciples asked Jesus what to do and were given specific instructions. They obeyed and followed what they were told despite the oddity of the situation. This same thing happens in our lives too but we simply do not believe, obey and follow. We have a tendency to rationalize things in our life and make decisions that we think are wiser for us to take rather than look very closely and pay attention to the things that God is telling us to do which are all very clear and established even before each one of us came to be since the time of Abraham, Jacob an Moses and until the present time through the teachings of the Church that remained intact and true since the "gates of hell" did not, does not and will never prevail. Indeed, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest! Amen. Hallelujah!



Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion - At the Procession with Palms, Reading 1



Mk 11:1-10

...If anyone should say to you, 'Why are you doing this?' reply, 'The Master has need of it
and will send it back here at once.'" So they went off and found a colt tethered at a gate outside on the street, and they untied it. Some of the bystanders said to them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?" They answered them just as Jesus had told them to, and they permitted them to do it...



Only to God should we rely for all our needs. If at the end of it all, when we've exerted our efforts and placed our best foot forward, still things do not work the way we expected and planned it to be then be at peace knowing that God has no boundaries and the real best is yet to come. God surpasses all bests and always have something great in store for us. Amen. Hallelujah!



Is 50:4-7
...The Lord GOD is my help, therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame...



Whenever we reach a point where we feel like we can no longer hold on and about to give up then we must not forget that our God is always with us ready to help us. If He was able to suffer His only Son on the Cross for our sake then there is really nothing else He can not do for us. Amen.


Responsorial Psalm

Ps 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24

R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

...They divide my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots. But you, O LORD, be not far from me; O my help, hasten to aid me.



Whenever we are confronted with difficult situations it is always easier done when we know we are doing it for the sake of a loved one. No matter how inadequate and insufficient we are as a people we still try our very best to bridge our gaps in the best human way we can. This should make us realize how much more can the Lord do for us in His Godly power, resources and love. Amen. Hallelujah!


Phil 2:6-11
Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave...



How can God the Father not give in to whatever Jesus His Son asks of Him when He was obedient to the extent of stripping Himself of all dignity and shame by undergoing the most unimaginable cruelty and torture ever known to humankind. In all ages there has never been a person known to be subjected to the same barbaric and inhuman experience the way Jesus had. Though He knew what he was about to go through He bravely accepted and obeyed. Both in His capacity as man and God He was able to suffer everything. As God, He knew what is about to come and what position He holds as Son of God in His Majestic Kingdom which He totally disregarded when He embraced the passion of the cross. As man, he felt all the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual pain and torture of what He accepted to bear. It's all because of His great love for us. Amen. Hallelujah!


Mk 14:1—15:47 or 15:1-39

12 On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?” 13 He sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city and a man will meet you, carrying a jar of water. Follow him. 14 Wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, “The Teacher says, ‘Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ ” 15 Then he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Make the preparations for us there.” 16 The disciples then went off, entered the city, and found it just as he had told them; and they prepared the Passover. He advanced a little and fell to the ground and prayed that if it were possible the hour might pass by him; he said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Take this cup away from me, but not what I will but what you will."