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Let us acclaim Him, not only with Palm branches, but by honoring one another in charity.

The scribes and Pharisees were trying to trap Jesus into a choice between gentleness and righteousness, between mercy and justice.

Celebration is just the natural overflow of divine love—the nature of God who finds the lost and brings the dead back to life.

Today’s Gospel presents an interplay of reality and perception, between the ordinary and the transcendent.

are the Paschal Mystery which make us Christians. Our faith stands on the conviction that the cross and resurrection of Jesus has defeated the devil and has inaugurated the ultimate defeat of evil.

The massive difference between a splinter and a plank suggests that the fault we complain of in others can be very small compared to the fault in ourselves that we refuse to see.

“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” Mercy, as Jesus presents it, is not optional but the hallmark of being a child of God.

In the biblical tradition, being “blessed” does not speak of a moral attitude to be adopted. Rather, in the tradition of our ancestors in the faith, the declaration of a person as “blessed” is in view of a coming action of God.

The purpose of hearing the Word is to be “caught” by it, to have it illumine the mind and inspire the will so that it changes one’s thinking and acting.

Let us be the light that announces that Divine Love is here, present in the temple of our hearts. In this way in the daily experience of living, we witness the Gospel and the Kingdom already present and active.