By Amala William csc –
Readings: Is 50: 4-7; Phil 2:6-11; Lk 22:14-23:56
Today, Palm Sunday, we enter the Holy Week. In the first reading, Prophet Isaiah speaks about the suffering servant who would meekly go through humiliations and tortures.
In the second reading, we see the Christological hymn of Jesus, where he from his divinity took the simple human form in due obedience to the Father and showed us the highest form of self-emptying love. In the gospel of Luke, we have the passion and death of Jesus Christ. Whenever I think of the divine plan of God for his people, I wonder at his active presence concretely right now.
In his love for humanity, God makes his son a sacrificial offering for the salvation of all. This mystery is easier said than understood with our mind and heart.
In today’s narrative of the passion, we would hear about Jesus’s human vulnerability and his suffering under the heavy cross. Yet, he was not a coward to run away from the situation. He stood as a valiant son of God and endured everything according to the will of the Father.
It is applicable to each one of us when we stand for a just cause. We will be left alone and cornered by our own people. If I am not able to make a firm connection with the Lord and the principles that I believe in, then I will fall for everything. In order to avoid it, I need to root myself in the Lord discerning the mission he has entrusted to me. Let us pray that we discern the will of God and uphold the values of Christ.