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15 Palm Sunday Things that Caught My Eye today (2015)

15 Palm Sunday Things that Caught My Eye today (2015)

Last updated on: March 29, 2015 at 7:36 pm by Kathryn Jean Lopez

15 Palm Sunday Things that Caught My Eye today (2015) 2015-03-29T19:36:40-05:00 Kathryn Jean Lopez

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1. Pope Francis this morning at Palm Sunday Mass:

This is God’s way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.

8th Station – Jesus meets the Women of Jerusalem: from St Dominic's Chapel, Providence College https://t.co/Uk9ndlUrGU

— Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) March 29, 2015

3. The meditation in Magnificat today is from Blessed Guerric of Igny:

If then… today’s procession and Passion are considered together, in the one Jesus is seen as sublime and glorious, in the other as lowly and suffering. In the procession he is thought of as receiving the honor of a king, in the Passion he is seen undergoing the punishment of a thief. In the one he is surrounded by glory and honor, in the other he has no form or comeliness. In the one he is the joy of men and the glory of the people in the other he is scorned by men and despised by the people. In the one he receives the acclamation: Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he who comes at the King of Israel. In the other he is disclaimed as guilty of death and mocked for having made himself King of Israel. In the one he is met with palm branches, in the other he is hit in the face with blows of the palm and his head is struck with a reed.

How do we approach Jesus this week? With gratitude and love, begging for the mercy he so generously offers, or indifference and lukewarmness? Do we make time to enter into the holiest of weeks this week, uniting our suffering and lowliness to our Savior’s?

By the way, Blessed Guerric of Igny was a close friend of Saint Bernard. Blessed was that friendship!

How many likes/retweets will #Jesus get when we sing: Hosanna in the highest heaven! Mt 21:9 #PalmSunday pic.twitter.com/Rr3ZJ39B8N

— Fr. George Mabura (@Fr_iMabura) March 28, 2015

5. From a sermon from St. Andrew of Crete (in today’s Liturgy of the Hours):

In his humility Christ entered the dark regions of our fallen world and he is glad that he became so humble for our sake, glad that he came and lived among us and shared in our nature in order to raise us up again to himself. And even though we are told that he has now ascended above the highest heavens—the proof, surely, of his power and godhead—his love for man will never rest until he has raised our earthbound nature from glory to glory, and made it one with his own in heaven.

The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ https://t.co/IDvQWItBHA

— Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) March 29, 2015

7. From St. John Paul II in 1997:

What the angels sang above the stable in Bethlehem on Christmas night, today resounds with a loud echo on the threshold of Holy Week, in which Jesus prepares to complete his messianic mission, achieving the world’s redemption through his Cross and Resurrection.
Glory to you, O Christ, Redeemer of the world! Hosanna!

"She broke the alabaster jar and poured it on His head" ~Mk 14:3. A reflection on the Gospel and a prayer for Priests http://t.co/mDsKg8ht8T

— Adopt-a-Priest (@adopt_a_priest) March 29, 2015

9. From Pope Benedict in 2012:

Dear brothers and sisters, may these days call forth two sentiments in particular: praise, after the example of those who welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem with their “Hosanna!”, and thanksgiving, because in this Holy Week the Lord Jesus will renew the greatest gift we could possibly imagine: he will give us his life, his body and his blood, his love. But we must respond worthily to so great a gift, that is to say, with the gift of ourselves, our time, our prayer, our entering into a profound communion of love with Christ who suffered, died and rose for us.

10. Pope Francis last year: Which character in the Passion are we most like?

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The gospel is nothing other than the good news of God’s love in Christ Jesus. -Cantalamessa http://t.co/Udff2A7hX8 pic.twitter.com/x5QhEkT9bJ

— Ryan Eggenberger (@RyanEggenberger) March 29, 2015

12. From St. Augustine in his Confessions:

How you loved us, good Father, who did not spare your only Son, but delivered him up for us! How you loved us, for whom he that thought it no robbery to be equal with you, was made subject even to the death of the cross, He alone, free along the dead, having power to lay down his life, and power to take it up again. For us he was victor and victim in your sight, and victor because a victim; for us he was priest and sacrifice before you, priest because he was sacrifice; where you were slaves, he made us your children by being your Son and becoming our servant! So I hope steadfastly in him that you will cure all my infirmities, for he sits at your right hand and makes intercession for us; else should I despair. For many and great are my infirmities, but your medicine is mightier.

13.

Jesus is closest to us in His suffering. #homilytweet #PalmSunday #HolyWeek

— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) March 29, 2015

14. From Fr. Steve Grunow:

Do we want the Lord Jesus? Or are the kings, priests and prophets of the world- the celebrity, the politician or financier- the idol-makers, the liars, and the death-dealers, what we really want?
Today, we are provoked to silence, and in that silence invited to pray. Why the silence? Why the prayer? Because we are all being compelled, by the cross of the Lord Jesus, to make our decision.

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We think of our siblings persecuted because they are Christians, the martyrs of our own time. Francis in #PalmSunday pic.twitter.com/quxk0DD7xc

— IneSM (@inesanma) March 29, 2015

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