Wednesday, November 20, 2002

From the homily
Fr. Joseph was the celebrant at noon Mass today. He had a lot of interesting points in his homily. One point dealt with one of the ways in which today's Gospel reading from St. Luke differs from the parallel text in St. Matthew which we heard on Sunday. It has a setting the other lacks, in that Our Lord is said to be "going to Jerusalem" as He teaches this particular parable, and St. Luke's account of the first Palm Sunday follows it immediately. Just as the other citizens in the parable protest that they do not want the nobleman to be their King, so the people of Jerusalem, egged on by the chief priests and elders, will turn against the Son of God and reject His Kingship. "They chose Caesar over Christ the King."
How often we are tempted to do this ourselves !

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