The Way of the Cross

And now, with Palm Sunday we enter into Holy Week.  We remember the joyful Hosannas as Jesus rides the colt of a donkey into Jerusalem, coats and palms strewn before him, and then the plot darkens as the powers of political collusion seek and gain an earthly power of darkness over Jesus. For the disciples, their earthly hopes seem lost.  

This resonates with our times when earthly powers seem to bring darkness and fear into our lives. Yet the message of Holy Week and of Easter is that in impossible darkness and fear, God’s unimaginable heavenly power brings light, and the power of the heavenly overcomes the earthly.

Let us allow this hope into our lives, but also hear the other message of Holy week -- the caution of what earthly powers, unchecked, can become.

CJ+