Jesus started out this Mass in triumph, hailed as a conquering hero. “Hosanna to the Son of David; blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord; hosanna in the highest.”
It seems like a distant memory; because Jesus ends up falsely condemned,
scourged and crucified, rejected by the leaders of the people and the great
majority of the people. Can’t get much
lower than that.
In our liturgy today it is all
straight down-hill. Sometimes life is
like that. The terrible war in Ukraine
grinding down cities and towns to rubble and destruction. The tragic mass shooting at the school in
Nashville on Monday, yet again! So many
crimes and tragedies and accidents. Things
just go from bad to worse, and life is just straight down-hill. (pause)
But, but we know that
for Jesus the tomb is NOT the end.
Against all odds and expectations, that is not the end. We have not yet reached the end of the
Gospel, the Good News.
And Jesus promises us that the tomb
is not the end for us either. There is
more. MUCH more! It is not over till it is over.
And in God’s plan there is so
fantastically much more to come.
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