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When we walk by the Spirit we will be kind and good, we grow gentle and faithful. We experience incomparable peace, a joy the world cannot give.

The receiving and giving among the friends of Jesus creates a unity that becomes a message to the non-unified world, a world that lives by taking and holding.

Peace signifies the restoration of harmonious relations between God and humankind. Peace is also the bond of accord between one another.

“Now is the Son of Man glorified:” the passion by which Jesus will be glorified is now beginning. Jesus, lifted up on the cross, is the glory of God shining on the world.

Jesus is the shepherd, we belong to Him, we recognize His voice, and we follow Him. A relationship dramatic and life-changing

God always calls us to more, always calls us to a higher level. But when we fall short, God accepts us, accepts what we offer.

It is God who is rich in mercy, whom Jesus Christ has revealed to us as Father. “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and sin” (Ex 34, 6-7).

The resurrection is not Jesus’ life beginning over again, but a new way of being alive in which death and the powers of darkness have been conquered. The resurrection of Jesus will not leave us living in the same way. We shall find the Lord who is waiting for us.

Let us acclaim Him, not only with Palm branches, but by honoring one another in charity.

The scribes and Pharisees were trying to trap Jesus into a choice between gentleness and righteousness, between mercy and justice.