Palm Sunday

Blessed Holy Week friends!! This is the hinge of our Liturgical year, the Week of weeks, the days that open a breach into eternity and creates the bridge that brings us back to the House of the Father. 

Today I will invite you to contemplate the Movement. The Lord is on the march, He is moving towards us (His Bride, His Jerusalem), but to be more precise He is ascending.  The meeting point of God and humanity is the mountain top (altar and altitude have the same root). As a meek Lamb He is moving upwards to the Mountain, where the Temple of Jerusalem resides. We can recall immediately the docility of Isaac trusting on his father Abraham as they climbed the mount. Now, we are accompanying Him on his ascent, as new spiritual “Isaacs”. 

He was journeying towards the Holy City, to celebrate the common feast of Passover, knowing that in the mysterious gifts of Bread and Wine he would give himself forever to his own. As He rides on the donkey He thinks about your freedom, the gate that will be open for you and me. Our friend Jesus is calling us to the heights of God himself; to those heights He wanted to lift every human being. We just need to unleash the desire to “be like God”, to attain the heights of God. It’s a new gravitational force (crying “Hosanna”), an upward movement that overcomes the downward pull of sin (crying “crucify him”). Today we stand at the point of intersection between two gravitational fields, but we say FIAT (Yes, I bless you!!) to the gravitational force/attraction of God’s merciful love, of God’s marriage proposal. What do we need? Just an honest and contrite heart, and “lift it up” with your palms: “Sursum corda!”.