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April 13 is Ramos Sunday, a holy day maintained by many Christians worldwide. This day commemorates the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem About 2,000 years ago.
For Jesus, it was the beginning of a dramatic week that would see him crucified and then resurrected from the dead. This day, Palm SundayMark the beginning of Holy Week. For those Christians who maintain Holy Week, we remember the dramatic events that are counted in the Gospels: the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus.
In the gospels, we read that Jesus entered Jerusalem in a procession that must have seemed both a parade and a protest. People aligned on the path of throwing garments and branches of palm when Jesus entered the holy city. They shouted “Hosanna!” This means: “Save us!”
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The ancient Jerusalem was under Roman occupation, directed by a puppet government. People wanted freedom and hope. They wanted what all people want: the ability to bloom like the people that God has made us be. But military occupation needed people to be loyal to the government first of all others.
When people began to call Jesus his king and his Lord, it was a threat to the established order. The tension on Ramos first Sunday must have been palpable. Hope and fear, freedom and power, justice and sin, all mixed.
Ramos Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. (Istock)
It is not so different today. Around us, the world seems increasingly divided against itself. I think people throughout the political spectrum may agree on that. Chaos seems to increase. The queen violence. Where is our peace?
Like those people for a long time, we, we follow Jesus, we might want to scream with fervor, “Hosanna! Except!” We could like Jesus To enter and clean our disaster. But I think Jesus expects us to clean the disaster we have made. We need to deliver a new sheet. This is the very definition of regret.
When we shout “Hosanna!” Today we should not think that Jesus will “save us” by fixing the disaster we have done without waiting for us to change. On the contrary. Fix the world one life at the same time, starting in our own hearts.
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The events of Holy Week show us that God loves us more than we can imagine. Jesus was willing to die for us, suffer, open the doors of eternal life to all who believe in Him. On the cross, he asked his father to forgive his executioners. The whole story, from beginning to end, is a story of sacrifice, generosity, forgiveness, mercy and, above all, grace.
If you go to a church this Sunday, you are likely to experience a collision of two moods. Agite the palms and singing vigorous hymns, he can feel hope and joy. Then hearing the history of Jesus suffering and death, he can feel sad. I love this contrast.
Hope, joy and sadness bind so often in our world. Read the headlines. Talk to a neighbor. Look around. If we can make sense of this collision of hope and sadness in Palm Sunday, we have a good start to make sense every day of our lives.
You will see, humans are wrong enough. We need a redeemer. We cannot get out of our mess for us. And yes, we also need to own our failures and be ready to amend our lives. This is exactly Ramos Sunday.
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Jesus enters the chaos of our lives and our world. We refer for salvation. Jesus will always listen to us, and he is ready to forgive our sins. And he is ready to travel with us through the challenges of life.
This will not make the problems of the world disappear due to magic, but can give us courage to be carriers of grace and mercy in this world.
