Palm Sunday Year B Entrance Homily

Today with great joy we welcome Christ into Jerusalem. May we continue to be filled with joy each and every single time when we encounter Christ and the mercy that He extends unto us. With joy we now enter into Holy Week and thus God's abundant mercy is made known unto us. On Holy Thursday we encounter His mercy through the institution of both the priesthood and the Holy Eucharist. On Good Friday we encounter His mercy upon the wood of the cross where He pours Himself out entirely for us. Then we will wait with great hope placed upon Easter Sunday and thus the Resurrection of the Lord. From the Resurrection we know that the mercy of God is unending. As we process into the Church and our joy is slowly turned into grief when we hear of the Lord's Passion may we remember that God is merciful and that His mercy endures forever. May we always prevail ourselves unto this infinite font of mercy as we now go forth into this Church with Christian joy.