Homily for Palm Sunday
March 24, 2024
Saint Patrick Cathedral
Fort Worth, Texas
Isaiah 50:4-7
Psalm 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 21-22
Philippians 2:6-11
Mark 14:1-15:47
Death on its own terms is an annihilation. It is a total and violent obliteration of every part of life that leads up to it. It ends friendships, it makes widows and widowers, it makes orphans, it closes the future, it bluntly ends life. Many nonbelievers, even those who enjoy life, in their more honest moments will speak out loud the unmentionable: death mocks our every action and achievement; it mocks all our hopes; it casts a shadow on everything we do and enjoy in life. Death haunts and terrifies us.
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