Palm Sunday Sermon: Purified and Given Back
“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! … Hosanna in the highest!” Today, as Christ enters Jerusalem, the crowds are raucous with joy. This Friday, we know well, their attitude will be very different. Today they welcome the Lord. In five short days, they will condemn Him: “His blood be on us and on our children!” (Mt 27:25). Lest we judge too harshly the crowd that gathered two thousand years ago, it would behoove us to recall that the Sacred Liturgy places these sa