Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041325.cfm
“Our Cloak & Suffering”
In Jesus’ time, your cloak was the most expensive article of clothing you possessed. Most people only owned one that was constantly mended and never discarded. For the poorest of the poor, their cloak was more than an article of clothing — it was their shelter and home.
Were Christ to come, would you lay your cloak on the road before Him?
About 200 years before Christ lived, a rabbi was teaching a group of his students on a little hill outside of their village. As he was teaching, their village was invaded by foreign troops. There was screaming, yelling, mayhem, and fire.
Finally, the rabbi looked up to heaven and screamed: “If only I were God!” One of his students asked him, “Rabbi, what would you do differently if you were God?”
The rabbi answered, “I would do nothing differently, but I would understand.”
We do not understand why suffering enters our life. We can either offer it up to God and ask Him to make good come from it or allow it to weigh us down or make us bitter. As we reflect on this Palm Sunday let’s take some time to think about what “cloak” we would lay on the road for Jesus and ask Him to make good come from our suffering.
May God Be Praised.
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