On this Passion Sunday, or better known as Pam Sunday, let us enter into Jerusalem with Jesus, but only hail and cheer Him if we are truly repentant for our sins, which caused him so much suffering and death. Let us not forget, that when we sin, we crucify him again.
Whenever we hear or read the account of the Passion and death of Jesus, we can't help but be moved with emotion. It fills us with pain, as if we were there as it happened. It was not just the chief priests, the cruel Roman soldiers, and the cowardice of the apostles, but it was all of our sins that inflicted this suffering upon Jesus.
On this Passion Sunday, or better known as Pam Sunday, let us enter into Jerusalem with Jesus, but only hail and cheer Him if we are truly repentant for our sins, which caused him so much suffering and death. Let us not forget, that when we sin, we crucify him again. The gospel today presents us a very interesting contrast between the Pharisees and Jesus. When the woman was caught in the act of adultery, the Pharisees were only interested in the woman's sin. They had no regard for the woman herself - as a person, as a human being. They were only interested to use her as a trap for Jesus. But Jesus was full of compassion. He restored the woman spiritually by forgiving her and telling her to go and sin no more. He restored her to society by saving her life.
No one knows what Jesus wrote on the ground. On this Fifth Sunday of Lent, let us reflect on how Jesus restored us from our brokenness. May we truly celebrate God's mercy during this final week of our Lenten journey, so that as we enter Holy Week we can be one with Jesus in his suffering and death. Only then can we be with him in his resurrection. |
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