We join with the saints as we hold the palms!

By Charles Muchiri

Sunday – 1^nd April, 2012

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion

Liturgical Year B, Cycle II

Readings for Mass

First Reading: Isaiah: 50: 4-7

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 22: 8-9, 17-20, 23-24

Gospel: Mark 14: 1-72, 15: 1-47 or Mark 15: 1-39

Today, the Roman Catholic Church celebrates Palm Sunday. And we all lift up our blessed palms, as we commemorate how Christ was ushered into Jerusalem by a cheering crowd.

These palms certainly do ring a bell! The book of Revelation: 7: 9 talks of the Saints in Heaven who hold palms.

“After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.”

The palms fast-track us to the triumph that Christ will have over death, over our sins!

That same crowd would later bay for Christ’s blood, in exchange to a criminal called Barnabas.

They would have nothing shot of having Christ crucified. Indeed, the story of the passion of Christ can easily bring someone to tears. But it is a story of victory. Victory over pride: Victory over death: Victory over Satan. It is therefore a story worth tears – tears of joy!

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