PSA 01 April 2012 Palm Sunday

Ken Howcroft. “Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord”. A sermon for Palm Sunday, the second Sunday of the Passion. Have you heard the rumours that Jesus is coming to Rome this weekend with some of his friends? How will you recognise him amongst all the tourists and pilgrims? He will not look different to the others, just like he did not look different when he rode in to Jerusalem. He came in as an ordinary pilgrim, doing what pilgrims do. There were clues there as to who and what he was, but you had to work it out for yourself. Who do we say that he is? It is as we think and pray that we shall start to recognise him. We will see the love that makes him give himself away for God and for others. We will start to feel that love that makes himself give himself away for you and me, and for others. As we gather round his table later on we have the chance to take into ourselves his life, his way of living, his way of being human and of embodying God’s love – and what we eat today we shall become tomorrow, more Christ-like in our everyday lives. The readings were Philippians 2:5-11 and Mark 11:1-11.