Isaiah’s beautiful description of his vocation could serve as a call for all Christians and people of faith:

The Passion story is rich with details, thick with characters, and brimming with dialogues. Everyone in the narrative is faced with the same choice we are: Bow toward God’s authority or bend a knee to their own? The 12 apostles have a dismal record on allegiance. Peter denies, Judas betrays, someone takes a halfhearted swipe with a sword at an unarmed servant before dashing off into hiding.

My young daughter, an only child, was asked whether she would have liked to have a brother or sister, to which she offered an emphatic yes.

As we begin the remembrance of our Lord’s Passion, we call to mind the failures and sins from which he saves us.

The reading from Philippians proclaimed on Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion makes up one of the better-known passages from Saint Paul’s epistles.

The prophet Isaiah’s four “servant songs” (Isaiah 42:17; 49:1-6; 50:4-9; 52:13-53:12) describe the qualities of the ideal servant leader.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. —Saint Augustine (354-430)