God Enters Into Our Darkness
3/24/202616 min
Friends, we come now to Palm Sunday, also called “Passion Sunday” because we read, in its entirety, one of the Passion narratives from the Synoptic Gospels. This year, we hear Matthew’s version, and one of the distinctive qualities of Matthew’s account is his stress on Judas—and more precisely, on the deep regret that Judas felt over his betrayal of the Lord. We’re challenged here to contemplate the radicality of God’s mercy and his relentless pursuit of even the worst of sinners.
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Robert Barron· Host0:36
Peace be with you. Friends, we come now to Palm Sunday, also called Passion Sunday, one of the great highlights of the liturgical year. Passion Sunday because on every Palm Sunday we read in its entirety one of the passion narratives from the synoptic Gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. And on Good Friday, we always read John's passion narrative. Something I like to do, we're in the Cycle A of readings this year, so we're reading Matthew's version. I like to see now what's distinctive to this one. There's a lot of overlap between them, but each one has distinctive qualities. Well, what stood out to me as I looked at this, Matthew, out of all of them, puts a stress on Judas and more precisely on the deep regret that Judas