Sunday Homily
INTO THE CACOPHONY OF SIN
LENT WEEK 6
PALM SUNDAY
by Bishop Robert Barron
On Palm Sunday, we are privileged to listen to one of the great Passion narratives. In Matthew’s account, we see Jesus as a still-point in the maelstrom, as God’s fidelity amidst a cacophony of sin. In the course of the Passion, Jesus confronts betrayal, laziness, violence, untruth, abuse of power, self-destruction, and wanton cruelty—the whole panoply of human dysfunction. And he takes away this sin precisely by his obedience and his mercy.
Isaiah 50:4-7
Ps 21 My God, .my God,
why have you forsaken me?
Philippians 2:6-11
Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory:
Christ was humbler yet,
even to accepting death, death on a cross.
But God raised him high
and gave him the name which is above all names.
Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory:
Matthew 26:14 — 27:66