Homily for Palm Sunday, April 10th, 2022
This is hardly the first time we heard the reading of the Passion narrative on Palm Sunday. Is the shock wearing off? After all, we hang the Crucifix anywhere we intend to find signs of his love; we even wear it around our neck. However, even if, by now, the shock wears thin perhaps because we emphasize the divinity of Christ over his humanity, there should be enough sorrow for us to wonder if there is anyway we could ease such horrific and prolonged agony. As a matter of fact there is; and this is the main reason why the Church keeps turning Palm Sunday into a