Palm Sunday Homily: Fr Vigoa — Transcript

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1. 0:04today we begin the best week in the
2. 0:07whole lurgical
3. 0:09year centuries ago it was called the
4. 0:12great week but nowadays week Catholics
5. 0:15call it holy
6. 0:17week we follow Jesus's every step of the
7. 0:21way we start with his triumphant entry
8. 0:24into Jerusalem where he was welcomed he
9. 0:27was applauded and acclaimed by the the
10. 0:30crowds of by his
11. 0:32followers on Thursday we will join him
12. 0:35at the table and receive the gift of
13. 0:37himself in the bread and
14. 0:40wine after dining with him we will walk
15. 0:43with him along the path that leads from
16. 0:45the upper room to the garden of
17. 0:48olives there we will see him falling to
18. 0:51the ground in fear and anxiety about the
19. 0:55cruel death that awaits
20. 0:58him on Friday Friday we will gather and
21. 1:01we will find ourselves standing beside
22. 1:05him with his mother at the foot of the
23. 1:07cross and feeling compassion for him in
24. 1:11both his physical Agony and his mental
25. 1:16torment we will be feeling especially
26. 1:19some of his sense of being alone and
27. 1:21abandoned betrayed and deserted not only
28. 1:25by his friends and his
29. 1:28followers but even by God
30. 1:32himself on Saturday we will be
31. 1:35quiet silent around his
32. 1:39tomb as we remember the Injustice the
33. 1:42hostility and the cruelty of all those
34. 1:45evil men who murdered
35. 1:48him then late in the evening on Saturday
36. 1:51we will move from the darkness of our
37. 1:53journey to the place of that brightly
38. 1:56burning
39. 1:58fire there we will join the procession
40. 2:01of the great Easter candle representing
41. 2:04the Risen Christ as he lights up the
42. 2:07darkness in our church and in our
43. 2:11lives there and then the pain and
44. 2:13sadness of our journey with Jesus to
45. 2:17Calvary this all will give way to
46. 2:21hope will give way to Joy a joy that
47. 2:24comes from our awareness of
48. 2:26understanding of all that has taken
49. 2:28place
50. 2:30Jesus Christ is not dead and gone but he
51. 2:34is alive strong and powerful alive in
52. 2:38himself and alive in every one of
53. 2:42us I'll keep it short today and close
54. 2:45with a little
55. 2:46thought I invite you that every time you
56. 2:49meditate on the sorrowful mysteries of
57. 2:51the Rosary every time you PR pray the
58. 2:54Stations of the Cross or you recite the
59. 2:56Chaplet of the Divine Mercy or even put
60. 2:59a crucifix around your
61. 3:02neck do these things with great
62. 3:07gratitude mindful of the price Jesus
63. 3:10Paid and how he perfectly accomplished
64. 3:13your Eternal
65. 3:15Redemption for that purpose and that
66. 3:18purpose alone is for which he
67. 3:21came so my brothers and sisters I invite
68. 3:23you as we enter into Holy Week to take
69. 3:26part into uh the different lurgical
70. 3:28celebrations this week I pray you have a
71. 3:33blessed Holy Week
72. 3:53amen