One Word Palm Sunday 2013

Great Lent 2013: Out of Captivity

① Superficial relationship with God

② Pizza Slice or Bicycle Hub

③ Selective hearing and selective reading

④ Dyparentification

⑤ Syncretism

⑥ Association

⑦ Darkness

St Andrew of CreteLet us run to accompany him as he hastens

toward his passion, and imitate those who met him then, not by covering his path

with garments, olive branches or palms, but by doing all we can to prostrate

ourselves before him by being humble and by trying to live as he would wish. Then we shall be able to receive the Word at

his coming, and God, whom no limits can contain, will be within us.

Our High Priest11 But Christ came as High Priest of

the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect

tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. 12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His

own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. Heb 9:11,12

The End is at Hand

7 But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers. 10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 1Pet 4:7,10

One wordAnd some were persuaded by the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.

25 So when they did not agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had

said one word: “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers, 26 saying, ‘Go to this people and say: “Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; And seeing you will see, and

not perceive; Acts 28:24-26

Time of visitation41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and

wept over it, 42 saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now

they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, 44 and

level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not

know the time of your visitation.” Lk 19:41-44

The hour has come

20 Now there were certain Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast. 21 Then they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” 22 Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn Andrew and Philip told Jesus.23 But Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified. 24 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.

St Andrew of Cretelet us present the conqueror of death, not with mere branches of palms but with the real rewards of his victory. Let our souls take the place of the welcoming branches as we join today in the children’s

holy song: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Blessed is the king of Israel.