Palm Sunday Homily
April 14, 2019
What More Could He
Do?
A mother called in to a Catholic radio show,
distraught that her sixteen-year-old son refused to attend Mass. She said that
he would tell her, "I believe in God, and He knows I love Him. But I don't
have to go to Mass for him to know that."
The radio host, a devout
Catholic man, told her to just do one thing the next time Sunday Mass rolled
around. She was to point to the crucifix on his wall and ask a simple question:
"What more does He need to do for you to attend Mass?"
What more does He need to do? He
wanted to show you how much He loves you, so He allowed Himself to be beaten,
whipped, spat upon, nailed to a Cross. What more does He need to do? He wanted
you to spend eternity with Him so badly that He chose to be stripped naked, be
slapped and have His beard plucked, have iron driven through His hands and feet,
and spend six hours hanging from a tree, mocked by everyone. What more does He
need to do? He thirsts for your love so much that He was willing to endure
thirst, pain, agony, torture, and death so that you could be free from sin and
brought close to the Lord. What more could He do?
The next time we are tempted to
sin, or to miss Mass, or to be bored in prayer, or to complain about suffering,
just look at the Cross – what more does He need to do to show you how you are
loved, how you are free from the cost of sin, what your life must be about?
What more could He do? Nothing.
He has given us everything.
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