Palm Sunday parishioners at the Cathedral of St. Mary heard about how the events that happened more than 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem, leading to Jesus’ death, resonate with what we’re seeing in the world today.
Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski connected the crowd calling for Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect, to set a murderer free instead of Jesus with today’s climate, where people are witnessing horrific acts and not always speaking up. Pilate handed Barabbas, the convicted murderer, over to the mob, and ordered Jesus to die by crucifixion.
“It is easy for us to say we would’ve done something different from the crowd or Pontius Pilate, but when we are silent in the face of suffering in the world around us [we are complacent],” preached Wenski during his homily at the Palm Sunday Mass. …