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Holy Week And Palm Sunday
Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 9, 2025 (message contributor)
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1. The Name Above All Names At Which We Bend
Contributed on Apr 9, 2025
The Son of God was divine already, but He thought it unfair to glom onto that identity. He became the face of the divine compassion and enduring love, God’s hesed, by emptying Himself of all His divine glory, all His divine dignity.
Palm/Passion Sunday The critical reading we are given from Scripture today is not one of the two Gospels, not the triumphant Palm Sunday story of Christ’s entry to Jerusalem and not the story of the Last Supper, Passion and death of Our Lord. No, the reading that is crucial to an understanding of ...read more
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2. Disappointed? You Were Looking For The Wrong Messiah
Contributed on Apr 12, 2025
It could have been a puppy or a pony or a Red Rider BB gun ® but the day sticks in your mind because you were very disappointed.
Palm Sunday Procession Homily 2025 Take a moment to recall from your childhood a particularly memorable Christmas or Birthday celebration in your family. I bet you have one in which you had wished—and made your wish known—for a particular toy or cuddly and did not receive it. It could have been a ...read more
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3. Could Even Judas Have Been Forgiven?
Contributed on Apr 13, 2025
Did Judas have to lose hope? On the third day after Jesus died, when the apostles gathered in the Upper Room, would there have been room for Judas Iscariot? He was, after all, one of the Twelve, chosen by Christ.
Monday of Holy Week 2025 St. John the Evangelist probably had three or four decades or more to contemplate the life and fate of his fellow disciple, Judas Iscariot. He then wrote his clear and crisp description of the man’s moral character. The incident described Mary of Bethany ministering to the ...read more
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4. Judas Was Not The Only Betrayer
Contributed on Apr 13, 2025
The servant of the Lord described by Isaiah today actually becomes a light, not just for people Israel, but for the goy, the nations. Wherever this servant would be, darkness would flee, and salvation would enter.
Tuesday of Holy Week 2026 None of us, I suppose, has ever lived in a house without electricity for more than a few hours or days. Those would be periods of a weather emergency, or utility blackout. But in a place without utilities, lanterns and candles would be used to extend the period of work or ...read more
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5. The Greatest Saint Meets The Greatest Criminal
Contributed on Apr 14, 2025
We don’t know what was going through Judas’ mind as he took the bread and wine offered by Jesus as His Body and Blood, but we can be pretty certain that he didn’t think he was doing evil.
Wednesday of Holy Week 2025 Is it possible for the greatest criminal not to know he’s doing evil? Today we have a case study from Scripture on the greatest saint who ever lived, and the greatest sinner. The saint, of course, is Our Lord Jesus Christ. The sinner—and we are all sinners, after ...read more
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6. Priest Forever Making Us Priests
Contributed on Apr 15, 2025
He (Jesus) did learn obedience to the Father’s will from what He suffered.
Thursday of Holy Week 2025 (at Matins) The annual feast of Passover, or Pesach, is attributed to the interaction of Moses with the liberating YHWH/Adonai at the time of the Israelite liberation from Egypt, perhaps 1200 years before Christ. A second feast, about six months later, held the annual ...read more
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7. Dying On A Cross
Contributed on Apr 16, 2025
Today we must give thanks for the gift of Jesus. His self-giving knew no limits and doesn’t stop giving even now.
Good Friday 2025 I’ve frequently thought that the best approach to a homily for Good Friday would be to stand and look at the biggest cross or crucifix and focus on the pain and torment Jesus underwent two thousand years ago. I’ll encourage you to do that sometime in the next couple of days before ...read more
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8. We Will Enter Into God's Rest
Contributed on Apr 17, 2025
Today is the day in which Christ conquers death, hell, and Satan.
Holy Saturday homily The human authors of the New Testament were really at a loss when they tried to describe how our lives will be once we have fallen asleep on earth and awakened in the presence of God. They believed as we do that those who live and die in faith and love would experience ...read more