Palm Sunday B
After giving it our all this Lent, fasting like those people who go on hunger strikes, emptying our bank accounts to give to the poor, and praying like the saints up in the mountains for days on end, we finally come to the most sublime moment of the year, Holy Week. Now if that exaggerated intro wasn’t for you, which is most likely the case, it was still meant to arouse a bit of an introspection, an examination of conscience if you will, as to how intensely we committed to the beautiful grace and process of conversion through penitential living. If anyone is thinking, “Man, I kinda really bombed Lent this year, and didn’t do anything really out of the ordinary. Shame on me!” Don’t worry! Most of us probably are thinking the same thing and it could be something we may want to place before the Lord in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The good news is that for at least this week, we can up our ante or better yet, go all in! Except we’re not betting on anything other than if we commit, we will come out of this week all the better for it, and that’s not even a bet. It’s more like physics. It’s bound to happen, yet, always through God’s grace and mercy.