• PPC Editorial España
  • Contacto
twitter
youtube
  • INICIO
    • QUIÉNES SOMOS
    • QUIÉNES LO FORMAMOS
    • QUÉ PRETENDEMOS
    • DÓNDE QUEREMOS LLEGAR
  • METODOLOGÍA
    • ORGANIZACIÓN
    • DINÁMICA DE LAS REUNIONES
  • PARTICIPA
    • DÓNDE Y CÓMO PARTICIPAR
    • ETAPA 1 – Reunidos en el nombre de Jesús
      • TEMA 1 – ¡Ánimo! Soy yo. No temáis
      • TEMA 2 – ¡Ánimo! Levántate. Te está llamando
      • TEMA 3 – Venid a mí los que estáis cansados y agobiados
      • TEMA 4 – Pedid, buscad, llamad
      • TEMA 5 – ¿Qué buscáis?
      • TEMA 6 – Id a Galilea. Allí lo veréis
      • TEMA 7 – Este es mi Hijo amado. Escuchadle a él
      • TEMA 8 – ¡Ábrete!
    • ETAPA 2 – El camino de Jesús
      • TEMA 9 – Impulsado por el Espíritu de Dios
      • TEMA 10 – Fiel al Padre
      • TEMA 11 – Enviado a los pobres
    • ETAPA 3 – La Buena Noticia de Dios
      • TEMA 12 – El Padre bueno
      • TEMA 13 – Dios busca a los perdidos
      • TEMA 14 – Dios es bueno con todos
      • TEMA 15 – Dios escucha a los que se confían a él
    • ETAPA 4 – Rasgos de Jesús
      • TEMA 16 – El hombre curado en sábado
      • TEMA 17 – El paralítico curado de su pecado
      • TEMA 18 – El leproso curado de la exclusión
      • TEMA 19 – Amigo de pecadores
      • TEMA 20 – La prostituta acogida por Jesús
      • TEMA 21 – El rico buscado por Jesús
      • TEMA 22 – Dichosos los pobres
      • TEMA 23 – El rico indiferente y el mendigo hambriento
      • TEMA 24 – La mirada de Jesús a la mujer encorvada
      • TEMA 25 – La defensa de la mujer adúltera
    • ETAPA 5 – Grandes llamadas de Jesús
      • TEMA 26 – Convertíos y creed la Buena Noticia
      • TEMA 27 – Acoged la semilla del reino de Dios
      • TEMA 28 – Vete y haz tú lo mismo
      • TEMA 29 – A mí me lo hicisteis
      • TEMA 30 – Amarás a tu Dios y a tu prójimo
      • TEMA 31 – Amad a vuestros enemigos
    • ETAPA 6 – Llamados a seguir a Jesús
      • TEMA 32 – Sígueme
      • TEMA 33 – Cargad con la cruz
      • TEMA 34 – Sois la sal de la tierra y la luz del mundo
      • TEMA 35 – Vosotros orad así
      • TEMA 36 – Haced esto en memoria mía
    • ETAPA 7 – Enviados por Jesús resucitado
      • TEMA 37 – A los pies del Crucificado
      • TEMA 38 – Yo os envío
      • TEMA 39 – Quédate con nosotros
      • TEMA 40 – Poneos en camino
  • BUENAS NOTICIAS
    • CASTELLANO
    • EUSKERA
    • GALLEGO
    • CATALÁN
    • INGLÉS
    • FRANCÉS
    • ITALIANO
    • PORTUGUES
  • AUTOR
    • Cartas
    • Videos
  • NOTICIAS
  • RECURSOS PASTORALES

Palm Sunday – A (Matthew 26,14–27,66)

Evangelio del 09 / Abr / 2017
Publicado el 03/ Abr/ 2017
por Coordinador - Mario González Jurado

NOTHING COULD STOP HIM

The Baptist’s execution wasn’t just by chance. According to an idea common among the Jewish people, the destiny awaiting a prophet is incomprehension, rejection, and all too often, death. Early on, Jesus probably counted on the possibility of a violent end.

But Jesus wasn’t suicidal. Nor was he seeking martyrdom. He never wanted suffering – either for himself or for anyone else. He dedicated his life to fight suffering in sickness, injustice, marginalization and hopelessness. He was totally given to «seeking God’s Reign and God’s justice»: that more dignified and happy world that his Father seeks.

If he accepts persecution and martyrdom, it’s out of faithfulness to the project of a God who doesn’t want to see God’s sons and daughters suffer. That’s why Jesus doesn’t run toward death, but also doesn’t hold back. He doesn’t flee in the face of threats, nor does he change or water down his affirmations in defense of the least.

It would have been easy for him to avoid execution. He could have done so by keeping quiet and not insisting on things that could upset people in the temple or in the palace of the Roman prefect. But no. He holds fast to his path. He prefers to be put to death rather than betray his conscience and be unfaithful to his Father God’s project.

He learned to live in a climate of insecurity, conflicts and accusations. Day by day he continued reaffirming his mission and kept announcing his message clearly. He dared to spread it not just in the far-flung villages of Galilee, but in the dangerous context of the temple. Nothing stopped him.

He will die faithful to the God in whom he has always trusted. He will keep welcoming everyone, even sinners and the unwanted. If they end up rejecting him, he will die as an «excluded», but with his death he will confirm what his whole life has been about: complete confidence in a God who doesn’t reject or exclude anyone from forgiveness.

He will keep seeking God’s Reign and God’s justice, identifying himself with the poorest and the most scorned people. If someday they kill him with the death penalty of the cross, a fate reserved for slaves, he will die like those who are poorest and most scorned, but his death will seal forever his faith in a God who wants to save human beings from all that enslaves them.

Jesus’ followers discover the final Mystery of reality, incarnated in his love and extreme self-giving for humanity. In the love of this crucified man God identifies Self with all those who suffer, God cries out against all injustice and forgives executioners of every time. One can believe in this God or not, but it’s not possible to ridicule this God. We Christians trust in this God. Nothing will stop God in the effort to save God’s children.

José Antonio Pagola
Translator: Fr. Jay VonHandorf

Compartir en redes
  • google-share

Idiomas

  • Castellano
  • Euskera
  • Gallego
  • Catalán
  • Inglés
  • Francés
  • Italiano
  • Portugues

Últimas reflexiones

6th Easter – C (John 14,23-29)
19/ May/ 2025
5th Easter – C (John 13,31-33a.34-35)
12/ May/ 2025
4th Easter – C (John 10,27-30)
05/ May/ 2025
3rd Easter – C (John 21,1-19)
28/ Abr/ 2025

Avisos Legales

  • Condiciones de uso
  • Política de privacidad
  • Política de Cookies

Copyright PPC Editorial 2014.
Edición: Editorial PPC | Diseño y desarrollo: PPC Editorial