Sunday, April 13 (March 31), 2025
Palm Sunday
Phil. 4:4-9; Jn. 12:1-18                                               

The whole city was out meeting the Lord at his solemn, royal entry into Jerusalem; the whole city was greeting him, crying: “Hosanna to the Son of David!” [Mt. 21:9].  But barely four days later the same people with the same voices shouted: “Crucify Him, crucify Him!” [Lk. 23:21].

What a surprising transformation!  But should we really be surprised?  Don’t we do just the same thing ourselves when, right upon the Holy Communion of the Divine Body and Blood of our Lord, we exit the church ─ and forget everything?   Having forgotten our own reverence to God, and God’s mercy towards us, we get involved into all sorts of self-indulgence, at first petty, and then also gross.  Thus, probably even sooner than in four days, although we do not shout: “Crucify Him!”, we actually crucify the Lord within ourselves.

And the Lord sees all that and endures the pain.  Glory to Thy longsuffering, O Lord!

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