Palm Sunday

One could say about Jesus that he traveled a long way from Nazareth to being King of Heaven and yet that is what we believe: "... so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord , to the glory of God the Father." (Phil 2: 10-11) We are so accustomed to seeing Christ in glory that we can forget he was, to his contemporaries, simply the lowly son of a carpenter (see Mk 6: 3). It is not to be wondered at that so many people struggle today to believe in Christ. What is needed is for them to experience his power and to see that his life endures in the Church. That means that we, like the people with the palms, continue to sing Christ's praises and acclaim him as King.