29/03/2026

Palm Sunday

It is right and fitting that in her liturgy the Church points to WORD that is to be found throughout Scripture. 

Today we are able to ponder the renewal and finalization that occurred in historical real-time of the promises of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to guide us through our lifetimes in this world as preparation to "see him as he really is".

The preliminary reading from Matthew sets the scene as we too become witnesses to the fervour and messianic hope that Jesus of Nazareth had inspired wherever he had preached throughout the Holy Land.

Seven/eight hundred years prior to the event that we joined in the first reading, Isaiah did not resist WORD but opened himself, listened, accepted and then joyfully proclaimed what would come to pass in Jerusalem.

On Friday "My God, my God why have you forsaken me" will be prayed from the cross by the dying sinless Son but sinners know that it is we who abandon Our FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and are in no way deserving of the Mercy created in bitter pain on Calvary outside the city walls.

Scholars inform us that St Paul is quoting a pre-existing hymn in the perfection that he too proclaims with joy in his heart. We know that this single-minded hard-core Pharisee had been captured by the direct intervention of the Resurrection and was thereafter inspired to formulate Resurrection Faith into an intellectually comprehensible form that itself has become part of the Scriptures.

During the early years of the Church there were many living eye-witnesses who had experienced the events celebrated during Holy Week. We cannot say that any of the Evangelists have the physical realism that man's technical advancement has made possible, but the undoubtable TRUTH is that which comes from God and is infallibly found only in Scripture.

Although Gospel details may vary and scoffers deride our Faith we all have to bend our knee at the name of Jesus and thank Our Father through the Holy Spirit for the revelation which we hope to share with the whole world as we open our whole beings to welcome the merciful grace that became a physical reality in the body and blood sacrificed for us 2000 years ago in Jerusalem. Amen.