
avril 13, 2025
PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD
Prédicateur:
Père Mario LEÓN omi
Séries:
Carême 2025
Passage:
Luc 22, 14 - 23, 56
Type De Service:
ENGLISH
Is 50, 4-7;
Psalm 21(22);
Flp 2, 6-11;
Lk 22, 14-23, 56
- Good morning, brothers and sisters. Welcome to the seventh video in this series of video-conferences for this Lent of 2025. Today, on this Palm Sunday, we enter into Holy Week. This Sunday is also known as Passion Sunday. In fact, in addition to reading the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, today we will proclaim the entire account of the Passion according to St. Luke.
- Today, like in the episode of the temptations in the desert (Lk 4, 1-12), Jesus shows us that God, his Father and our Father, has a very special and unique way of doing things. This is something the devil could not understand in the desert. Sadly, sometimes we cannot understand either. God has chosen the most demanding and difficult path, the path of Love. To save us, He has Loved us “with all HIS heart, with all His soul, with all His mind, and with all His strength”. Love to the point of exhaustion and to His last breath. Indeed, mediocrity, half-heartedness and “half-measures” are not enough for him. And it’s true that God asks us to love him … again … : “with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind and with all our strength”… but He asks this from us because he himself first loved us in this unconditional way.
- In fact, if He puts His whole being and all His love at work… in the same way it is our whole being that is equally at work. Nothing escapes from God’s love. He wants to save our thoughts, our feelings, our attitudes, our behavior, our body and our soul. It is a FULL salvation. That’s right, God’s salvation is a Plenary Salvation. Nothing escapes from it. Nothing.
- Because the sin we commit leaves its trace in us… like “wounds”. Isaiah will say that “by his wounds we were healed” (Is 53:5b). Well, his salvation reaches even those wounds left by sin. Our sinful inclinations, our feelings of guilt, our sorrows and miseries… it is an authentic internal and external bath: a purification. The word we can use is “integral”. God puts everything in order to heal and save us “integrally”.
- I invite you, my brothers and sisters, to live in this same way this Holy Week that we begin today. Will we be able to put all our heart? And all our soul? All our mind? All our strength? Easter will be the perfect occasion to renew our BAPTISM: and the Jubilee that we want to live is not only the anniversary of the birth of Jesus, it is also the anniversary of our birth to Christian life, of our BAPTISM.
- To live the grace of the Jubilee, the way is clear. We have already explained it several times:
- Go to a cathedral or Jubilee church: we do it every time we come to Mass. Our church in Laayoune is a Jubilee church.
- Confess our faith: we do it every Sunday and we will do it in a special way at the Easter Vigil.
- Pray for the intentions of the Church and of the Pope: Again, we do this every Sunday at the Eucharist.
- Make an act of contrition, with sorrow of the soul and purpose of satisfaction, confess your sins and receive absolution: It is possible to do this every Sunday before Mass and at any time if you ask one of the priests. In addition, on April 13th, at 7:00 p.m., we will have a community celebration of penance. It will be a unique occasion.
- Receive Communion: Receive His Body to have communion with Him and He with you. To receive his Body in order to have communion with the Church, which is the Body of Christ..
- It is simple. Let’s live this week with intensity, with passion, with awareness and intentionality. Let us put “all our heart, all our soul, all your mind, and all our strength”.
- Happy Holy Week, brothers and sisters.