This Weeks Scripture Readings

March 24, 2024
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

Isaiah 50: 4-7
Psalm 22
Philippians 2: 6-11
Mark 14: 1-15: 47

The Passion

The Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ was not a merely pious act. It is not simply a devotedly religious act. It is not indicative of the status quo. It does not bring serenity.

The original event of the Lord’s passion and its yearly commemoration is shocking. It is visceral. It is a buffet to the face. It is an event that may awaken you to the reality of suffering, your suffering and the suffering of others.

The passion of our Lord has a prominent place in the consciousness of Christians. And so it is prominent in the Church’s ritual. Christ and his community of faith must pass through the passion to reach the Resurrection, Ascension, and Pentecost. Along with Jesus Christ we journey in this direction.

The passion reminds us that if we suffer hate due to Christ’s name it is because he was hated first. He was hated for caring for the poor and disenfranchised. It you experience these things here on earth might it be because you care for the same?

Remember the story in the Gospel of the poor man and the wealthy man. When both died the poor man who suffered much on earth went to be with Abraham. He was comforted much. The wealthy man was separated from the others across a great abyss and suffered for eternity.

The passion compels us to see in the face of Christ the faces of others who suffer. We see our brothers and sisters who suffer poverty, discrimination, and neglect. To stand with them will bring us the same passion Christ suffers. He sees those who suffer such injustice still.

The Passion has the potential, if we need it, to free us from sin. Then, freed from sin we may know the joy of being one with Jesus Christ.

Peace and blessings,
Father Bob

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Mary, Queen of Peace, save us all, who have so much trust in you, from wars, hatred, and oppression. Make us all learn to live in peace, and educate ourselves for peace, do what is demanded by justice and respect the rights of every person, so that peace may be firmly established. Amen.

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March 31, 2024
Easter Sunday The Resurrection of the Lord

Acts 10: 34a, 37-43
Psalm 118
Colossians 3:1-4
John 20:1-9

Reading 1
Acts 10:34a, 37-43
Peter proceeded to speak and said:
“You know what has happened all over Judea,
beginning in Galilee after the baptism
that John preached,
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth
with the Holy Spirit and power.
He went about doing good
and healing all those oppressed by the devil,
for God was with him.
We are witnesses of all that he did
both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem.
They put him to death by hanging him on a tree.
This man God raised on the third day and granted that he be visible,
not to all the people, but to us,
the witnesses chosen by God in advance,
who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
He commissioned us to preach to the people
and testify that he is the one appointed by God
as judge of the living and the dead.
To him all the prophets bear witness,
that everyone who believes in him
will receive forgiveness of sins through his name.”

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23.
R (24) This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
for his mercy endures forever.
Let the house of Israel say,
“His mercy endures forever.”
R (24) This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

“The right hand of the LORD has struck with power;
the right hand of the LORD is exalted.
I shall not die, but live,
and declare the works of the LORD.”
R (24) This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad. the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.
By the LORD has this been done;
it is wonderful in our eyes.
R (24) This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

Reading II
Col 3:1-4
Brothers and sisters:
If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above,
where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
Think of what is above, not of what is on earth.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ your life appears,
then you too will appear with him in glory.

The Gospel
Jn 20:1-9
Brothers and sisters:
If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above,
where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
Think of what is above, not of what is on earth.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ your life appears,
then you too will appear with him in glory.
On the first day of the week,
Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning,
while it was still dark,
and saw the stone removed from the tomb.
So she ran and went to Simon Peter
and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them,
“They have taken the Lord from the tomb,
and we don’t know where they put him.”
So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb.
They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter
and arrived at the tomb first;
he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in.
When Simon Peter arrived after him,
he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there,
and the cloth that had covered his head,
not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place.
Then the other disciple also went in,
the one who had arrived at the tomb first,
and he saw and believed.
For they did not yet understand the Scripture
that he had to rise from the dead.

Next Weeks Readings

April 7, 2024
Second Sunday of Easter
Sunday of Divine Mercy
Acts 4:32-35
1John 5:1-6
John 20:19-31