{"id":21723,"date":"2021-03-27T10:23:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T14:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=21723"},"modified":"2021-03-24T08:27:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T12:27:25","slug":"palm-sunday-b-conversations-with-consequences-podcast-march-27-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/palm-sunday-b-conversations-with-consequences-podcast-march-27-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Sunday (B), Conversations with Consequences Podcast, March 27, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewtn.com\/radio\/shows\/conversations-with-consequences\">Conversations with Consequences<\/a> Podcast<br \/>\nHomily for Palm Sunday (B), Vigil<br \/>\nMarch 27, 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of this short Sunday homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-21723-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.27.21_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.27.21_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.27.21_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>The following text guided\u00a0the homily:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is Fr. Roger Landry and it\u2019s a privilege to have a chance to ponder with you the consequential conversation that Jesus wants to have with us tomorrow on Palm Sunday and throughout this upcoming week that the Church calls \u201choly.\u201d It\u2019s holy, first, because of all Jesus Christ did during these days, from the triumphal entry into his city, to his teaching in the Temple, to the Last Supper, to his prayer in Gethsemane, to his arrest, torture, crucifixion, preaching and death on Good Friday, to his rest in the tomb, and his glorious resurrection on the third day. It\u2019s also called holy because it\u2019s meant to make us holy, if we live this week the right way, if we enter into the mysteries we celebrate, if we internalize all Jesus won for us during these most holy of days, if we, in short, enter into a conversation with Jesus not just with thoughts or words but with our whole life. Holy Week is supposed to be our most faith-filled week of the year, but that requires our <em>choosing<\/em>to make it the most faith-filled week of the year.<\/li>\n<li>Last year, that choice was somewhat taken out of our hands by civil and Church leaders who prevented us from going to Church out of fear of COVID-19, leaving us to do the best we could watching the liturgies virtually or by other means. This year we have a chance to make up for a year lost with even greater appreciation and love.<\/li>\n<li>We begin Holy Week tomorrow on Palm Sunday and in the Gospel at the beginning of Mass and the reading of St. Mark\u2019s passion, we see six different ways we\u2019re called to respond to Jesus with faith so that through the mysteries of this week he may fulfill his desire to make us holy.<\/li>\n<li>The first thing we learn is how to <em>welcome <\/em> The crowds laid their cloaks on the ground, lifted Palm Branches, and exclaimed: \u201cHosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.\u2019\u201d Their attitude shows us the type of exhilaration we should have to welcome Jesus this Holy Week.<\/li>\n<li>The second thing we learn is how to <em>value Jesus appropriately<\/em>. At the beginning of the Passion account, there is a huge contrast between Mary of Bethany, who anoints Jesus\u2019 with more than a year salary\u2019s worth of genuine aromatic spikenard out of love for Jesus, she valued him that much. Judas complained, saying that the perfumed oil could have been sold for 300 days wages and the money given to the poor. But Judas moments later went out to ask the chief priests what they would pay him to betray Jesus into their hands. The question for us is, is there any price for which we\u2019d betray Jesus? Would we sell him for a million? Would we sell him for a trillion? Would we sell him if the devil were to promise us, as he promised Jesus in the desert, all the kingdoms of the world? If we\u2019re going to live Holy Week \u2014 and life \u2014 the way God wants, we need to commit ourselves <em>never<\/em>to sell Jesus out.<\/li>\n<li>The third thing we learn is about preparation. Jesus sent two of his disciples with meticulous instructions to prepare the Last Supper, concerning finding and following a man carrying a jar of water, then asking the master of the house where he goes where Jesus would celebrate the Passover with his disciples. That\u2019s what they did. What type of preparations are we going to make? Are we going to be ready? Are we going to show up to the Upper Room with him for the celebration he eagerly desires to eat with us, as he prepares to change bread and wine into his body and blood.<\/li>\n<li>The fourth lesson the readings teach us is how important it is to <em>stay awake with Jesus<\/em>in prayer. Jesus asks Peter, James and John to stay awake with him and pray, reminding us that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. The apostles in the garden fell asleep and we see how they soon abandoned Jesus despite their love for him. Jesus wants us to stay close to him in prayer, to have our flesh strengthened by him to triumph over temptation, to enter into greater intimacy with his suffering, especially during the Sacred Triduum of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday. Are we ready?<\/li>\n<li>The fifth thing the readings teach us is about <em>the dramatic choice<\/em>we\u2019re called to make. Pilate asks, \u201cDo you want me to release to you the King of the Jews.\u201d But the chief priests stirred the mob to ask for Barabbas. \u201cThen,\u201d Pilate retorted, \u201cwhat do you want me to do with the man you call the king of the Jews?\u201d And to Pilate\u2019s astonishment, they cried out repeatedly, \u201cCrucify him.\u201d Do we want Jesus as our king, or do we substitute some Barabbas? Choosing Jesus on the most momentous occasions comes from choosing Jesus repeatedly and faithfully in small decisions, choosing to pray, choosing to receive his forgiveness and share it, choosing to love him in our neighbor, choosing to ponder his words in the Bible rather than spending our time watching or reading the news or fanatically watching March Madness, choosing to make him in the Eucharist the source and summit of our life.<\/li>\n<li>The sixth thing the readings teach us to live Holy Week well is <em>our need to help Jesus carry his Cross. <\/em>The Roman soldiers pressed Simon, a Cyrenian, to help Jesus carry his cross. Jesus himself chooses us to do so, saying that we cannot be his disciples unless we deny ourselves, pick up the Cross each day and follow him. That\u2019s a condition for the entire year. Especially in Holy Week, however, it\u2019s a particularly pressing summons. Jesus wants us to be co-redeemers with him, to make up what is lacking in his sufferings for the sake of the salvation of the world. This week is a week in which we help Jesus carry his Cross by helping, for example, others carry theirs, by visiting and consoling the sick, those mourning the death of loved ones, or otherwise in need. The more we help others the closer we will be to Christ.<\/li>\n<li>To welcome Jesus, to value him appropriately, to prepare to enter the mysteries with him, to accompany him in prayer, to choose him over every Barabbas, and to help him carry his redeeming Cross, these are the means by which we will live with faith this most important week of the year. This is the pathway by which Jesus will make us holy like he is holy during this special week of sanctification. Let\u2019s pray for each other to live this Holy Week as it deserves and Jesus desires.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings on which the homily was based were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-header\">\n<div class=\"address\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/mark\/11?1\">Mk 11:1-10<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-body\">\n<p>When Jesus and his disciples drew near to Jerusalem,<br \/>\nto Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives,<br \/>\nhe sent two of his disciples and said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cGo into the village opposite you,<br \/>\nand immediately on entering it,<br \/>\nyou will find a colt tethered on which no one has ever sat.<br \/>\nUntie it and bring it here.<br \/>\nIf anyone should say to you,<br \/>\n\u2018Why are you doing this?\u2019 reply,<br \/>\n\u2018The Master has need of it<br \/>\nand will send it back here at once.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nSo they went off<br \/>\nand found a colt tethered at a gate outside on the street,<br \/>\nand they untied it.<br \/>\nSome of the bystanders said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat are you doing, untying the colt?\u201d<br \/>\nThey answered them just as Jesus had told them to,<br \/>\nand they permitted them to do it.<br \/>\nSo they brought the colt to Jesus<br \/>\nand put their cloaks over it.<br \/>\nAnd he sat on it.<br \/>\nMany people spread their cloaks on the road,<br \/>\nand others spread leafy branches<br \/>\nthat they had cut from the fields.<br \/>\nThose preceding him as well as those following kept crying out:<br \/>\n\u201cHosanna!<br \/>\nBlessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!<br \/>\nBlessed is the kingdom of our father David that is to come!<br \/>\nHosanna in the highest!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-header\">\n<div class=\"address\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/mark\/14?1\">Mk 14:1\u201415:47<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-body\">\n<p>The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread<br \/>\nwere to take place in two days\u2019 time.<br \/>\nSo the chief priests and the scribes were seeking a way<br \/>\nto arrest him by treachery and put him to death.<br \/>\nThey said, \u201cNot during the festival,<br \/>\nfor fear that there may be a riot among the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When he was in Bethany reclining at table<br \/>\nin the house of Simon the leper,<br \/>\na woman came with an alabaster jar of perfumed oil,<br \/>\ncostly genuine spikenard.<br \/>\nShe broke the alabaster jar and poured it on his head.<br \/>\nThere were some who were indignant.<br \/>\n\u201cWhy has there been this waste of perfumed oil?<br \/>\nIt could have been sold for more than three hundred days\u2019 wages<br \/>\nand the money given to the poor.\u201d<br \/>\nThey were infuriated with her.<br \/>\nJesus said, \u201cLet her alone.<br \/>\nWhy do you make trouble for her?<br \/>\nShe has done a good thing for me.<br \/>\nThe poor you will always have with you,<br \/>\nand whenever you wish you can do good to them,<br \/>\nbut you will not always have me.<br \/>\nShe has done what she could.<br \/>\nShe has anticipated anointing my body for burial.<br \/>\nAmen, I say to you,<br \/>\nwherever the gospel is proclaimed to the whole world,<br \/>\nwhat she has done will be told in memory of her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve,<br \/>\nwent off to the chief priests to hand him over to them.<br \/>\nWhen they heard him they were pleased and promised to pay him money.<br \/>\nThen he looked for an opportunity to hand him over.<\/p>\n<p>On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread,<br \/>\nwhen they sacrificed the Passover lamb,<br \/>\nhis disciples said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cWhere do you want us to go<br \/>\nand prepare for you to eat the Passover?\u201d<br \/>\nHe sent two of his disciples and said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cGo into the city and a man will meet you,<br \/>\ncarrying a jar of water.<br \/>\nFollow him.<br \/>\nWherever he enters, say to the master of the house,<br \/>\n\u2018The Teacher says, \u201cWhere is my guest room<br \/>\nwhere I may eat the Passover with my disciples?\u201d\u2019<br \/>\nThen he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready.<br \/>\nMake the preparations for us there.\u201d<br \/>\nThe disciples then went off, entered the city,<br \/>\nand found it just as he had told them;<br \/>\nand they prepared the Passover.<\/p>\n<p>When it was evening, he came with the Twelve.<br \/>\nAnd as they reclined at table and were eating, Jesus said,<br \/>\n\u201cAmen, I say to you, one of you will betray me,<br \/>\none who is eating with me.\u201d<br \/>\nThey began to be distressed and to say to him, one by one,<br \/>\n\u201cSurely it is not I?\u201d<br \/>\nHe said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cOne of the Twelve, the one who dips with me into the dish.<br \/>\nFor the Son of Man indeed goes, as it is written of him,<br \/>\nbut woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed.<br \/>\nIt would be better for that man if he had never been born.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While they were eating,<br \/>\nhe took bread, said the blessing,<br \/>\nbroke it, and gave it to them, and said,<br \/>\n\u201cTake it; this is my body.\u201d<br \/>\nThen he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them,<br \/>\nand they all drank from it.<br \/>\nHe said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cThis is my blood of the covenant,<br \/>\nwhich will be shed for many.<br \/>\nAmen, I say to you,<br \/>\nI shall not drink again the fruit of the vine<br \/>\nuntil the day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.\u201d<br \/>\nThen, after singing a hymn,<br \/>\nthey went out to the Mount of Olives.<\/p>\n<p>Then Jesus said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cAll of you will have your faith shaken, for it is written:<br \/>\n<em>I will strike the shepherd,<br \/>\nand the sheep will be dispersed.<\/em><br \/>\nBut after I have been raised up,<br \/>\nI shall go before you to Galilee.\u201d<br \/>\nPeter said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cEven though all should have their faith shaken,<br \/>\nmine will not be.\u201d<br \/>\nThen Jesus said to him,<br \/>\n&#8220;Amen, I say to you,<br \/>\nthis very night before the cock crows twice<br \/>\nyou will deny me three times.\u201d<br \/>\nBut he vehemently replied,<br \/>\n\u201cEven though I should have to die with you,<br \/>\nI will not deny you.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd they all spoke similarly.<\/p>\n<p>Then they came to a place named Gethsemane,<br \/>\nand he said to his disciples,<br \/>\n\u201cSit here while I pray.\u201d<br \/>\nHe took with him Peter, James, and John,<br \/>\nand began to be troubled and distressed.<br \/>\nThen he said to them, \u201cMy soul is sorrowful even to death.<br \/>\nRemain here and keep watch.\u201d<br \/>\nHe advanced a little and fell to the ground and prayed<br \/>\nthat if it were possible the hour might pass by him;<br \/>\nhe said, \u201cAbba, Father, all things are possible to you.<br \/>\nTake this cup away from me,<br \/>\nbut not what I will but what you will.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen he returned he found them asleep.<br \/>\nHe said to Peter, \u201cSimon, are you asleep?<br \/>\nCould you not keep watch for one hour?<br \/>\nWatch and pray that you may not undergo the test.<br \/>\nThe spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.\u201d<br \/>\nWithdrawing again, he prayed, saying the same thing.<br \/>\nThen he returned once more and found them asleep,<br \/>\nfor they could not keep their eyes open<br \/>\nand did not know what to answer him.<br \/>\nHe returned a third time and said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cAre you still sleeping and taking your rest?<br \/>\nIt is enough. \u00a0The hour has come.<br \/>\nBehold, the Son of Man is to be handed over to sinners.<br \/>\nGet up, let us go.<br \/>\nSee, my betrayer is at hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, while he was still speaking,<br \/>\nJudas, one of the Twelve, arrived,<br \/>\naccompanied by a crowd with swords and clubs<br \/>\nwho had come from the chief priests,<br \/>\nthe scribes, and the elders.<br \/>\nHis betrayer had arranged a signal with them, saying,<br \/>\n\u201cThe man I shall kiss is the one;<br \/>\narrest him and lead him away securely.\u201d<br \/>\nHe came and immediately went over to him and said,<br \/>\n\u201cRabbi.\u201d \u00a0And he kissed him.<br \/>\nAt this they laid hands on him and arrested him.<br \/>\nOne of the bystanders drew his sword,<br \/>\nstruck the high priest\u2019s servant, and cut off his ear.<br \/>\nJesus said to them in reply,<br \/>\n\u201cHave you come out as against a robber,<br \/>\nwith swords and clubs, to seize me?<br \/>\nDay after day I was with you teaching in the temple area,<br \/>\nyet you did not arrest me;<br \/>\nbut that the Scriptures may be fulfilled.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd they all left him and fled.<br \/>\nNow a young man followed him<br \/>\nwearing nothing but a linen cloth about his body.<br \/>\nThey seized him,<br \/>\nbut he left the cloth behind and ran off naked.<\/p>\n<p>They led Jesus away to the high priest,<br \/>\nand all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes came together.<br \/>\nPeter followed him at a distance into the high priest\u2019s courtyard<br \/>\nand was seated with the guards, warming himself at the fire.<br \/>\nThe chief priests and the entire Sanhedrin<br \/>\nkept trying to obtain testimony against Jesus<br \/>\nin order to put him to death, but they found none.<br \/>\nMany gave false witness against him,<br \/>\nbut their testimony did not agree.<br \/>\nSome took the stand and testified falsely against him,<br \/>\nalleging, \u201cWe heard him say,<br \/>\n\u2018I will destroy this temple made with hands<br \/>\nand within three days I will build another<br \/>\nnot made with hands.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nEven so their testimony did not agree.<br \/>\nThe high priest rose before the assembly and questioned Jesus,<br \/>\nsaying, \u201cHave you no answer?<br \/>\nWhat are these men testifying against you?\u201d<br \/>\nBut he was silent and answered nothing.<br \/>\nAgain the high priest asked him and said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cAre you the Christ, the son of the Blessed One?\u201d<br \/>\nThen Jesus answered, \u201cI am;<br \/>\nand \u2018you will see the Son of Man<br \/>\nseated at the right hand of the Power<br \/>\nand coming with the clouds of heaven.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nAt that the high priest tore his garments and said,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat further need have we of witnesses?<br \/>\nYou have heard the blasphemy.<br \/>\nWhat do you think?\u201d<br \/>\nThey all condemned him as deserving to die.<br \/>\nSome began to spit on him.<br \/>\nThey blindfolded him and struck him and said to him, \u201cProphesy!\u201d<br \/>\nAnd the guards greeted him with blows.<\/p>\n<p>While Peter was below in the courtyard,<br \/>\none of the high priest\u2019s maids came along.<br \/>\nSeeing Peter warming himself,<br \/>\nshe looked intently at him and said,<br \/>\n\u201cYou too were with the Nazarene, Jesus.\u201d<br \/>\nBut he denied it saying,<br \/>\n\u201cI neither know nor understand what you are talking about.\u201d<br \/>\nSo he went out into the outer court.<br \/>\nThen the cock crowed.<br \/>\nThe maid saw him and began again to say to the bystanders,<br \/>\n\u201cThis man is one of them.\u201d<br \/>\nOnce again he denied it.<br \/>\nA little later the bystanders said to Peter once more,<br \/>\n\u201cSurely you are one of them; for you too are a Galilean.\u201d<br \/>\nHe began to curse and to swear,<br \/>\n\u201cI do not know this man about whom you are talking.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd immediately a cock crowed a second time.<br \/>\nThen Peter remembered the word that Jesus had said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cBefore the cock crows twice you will deny me three times.\u201d<br \/>\nHe broke down and wept.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as morning came,<br \/>\nthe chief priests with the elders and the scribes,<br \/>\nthat is, the whole Sanhedrin held a council.<br \/>\nThey bound Jesus, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.<br \/>\nPilate questioned him,<br \/>\n\u201cAre you the king of the Jews?\u201d<br \/>\nHe said to him in reply, \u201cYou say so.\u201d<br \/>\nThe chief priests accused him of many things.<br \/>\nAgain Pilate questioned him,<br \/>\n\u201cHave you no answer?<br \/>\nSee how many things they accuse you of.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus gave him no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed.<\/p>\n<p>Now on the occasion of the feast he used to release to them<br \/>\none prisoner whom they requested.<br \/>\nA man called Barabbas was then in prison<br \/>\nalong with the rebels who had committed murder in a rebellion.<br \/>\nThe crowd came forward and began to ask him<br \/>\nto do for them as he was accustomed.<br \/>\nPilate answered,<br \/>\n\u201cDo you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?\u201d<br \/>\nFor he knew that it was out of envy<br \/>\nthat the chief priests had handed him over.<br \/>\nBut the chief priests stirred up the crowd<br \/>\nto have him release Barabbas for them instead.<br \/>\nPilate again said to them in reply,<br \/>\n\u201cThen what do you want me to do<br \/>\nwith the man you call the king of the Jews?\u201d<br \/>\nThey shouted again, \u201cCrucify him.\u201d<br \/>\nPilate said to them, \u201cWhy? \u00a0What evil has he done?\u201d<br \/>\nThey only shouted the louder, \u201cCrucify him.\u201d<br \/>\nSo Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd,<br \/>\nreleased Barabbas to them and, after he had Jesus scourged,<br \/>\nhanded him over to be crucified.<\/p>\n<p>The soldiers led him away inside the palace,<br \/>\nthat is, the praetorium, and assembled the whole cohort.<br \/>\nThey clothed him in purple and,<br \/>\nweaving a crown of thorns, placed it on him.<br \/>\nThey began to salute him with, &#8220;Hail, King of the Jews!\u201d<br \/>\nand kept striking his head with a reed and spitting upon him.<br \/>\nThey knelt before him in homage.<br \/>\nAnd when they had mocked him,<br \/>\nthey stripped him of the purple cloak,<br \/>\ndressed him in his own clothes,<br \/>\nand led him out to crucify him.<\/p>\n<p>They pressed into service a passer-by, Simon,<br \/>\na Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country,<br \/>\nthe father of Alexander and Rufus,<br \/>\nto carry his cross.<\/p>\n<p>They brought him to the place of Golgotha<br \/>\n\u2014 which is translated Place of the Skull \u2014,<br \/>\nThey gave him wine drugged with myrrh,<br \/>\nbut he did not take it.<br \/>\nThen they crucified him and divided his garments<br \/>\nby casting lots for them to see what each should take.<br \/>\nIt was nine o\u2019clock in the morning when they crucified him.<br \/>\nThe inscription of the charge against him read,<br \/>\n\u201cThe King of the Jews.\u201d<br \/>\nWith him they crucified two revolutionaries,<br \/>\none on his right and one on his left.<br \/>\nThose passing by reviled him,<br \/>\nshaking their heads and saying,<br \/>\n\u201cAha! \u00a0You who would destroy the temple<br \/>\nand rebuild it in three days,<br \/>\nsave yourself by coming down from the cross.\u201d<br \/>\nLikewise the chief priests, with the scribes,<br \/>\nmocked him among themselves and said,<br \/>\n\u201cHe saved others; he cannot save himself.<br \/>\nLet the Christ, the King of Israel,<br \/>\ncome down now from the cross<br \/>\nthat we may see and believe.\u201d<br \/>\nThose who were crucified with him also kept abusing him.<\/p>\n<p>At noon darkness came over the whole land<br \/>\nuntil three in the afternoon.<br \/>\nAnd at three o\u2019clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice,<br \/>\n\u201c<em>Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?<\/em>\u201d<br \/>\nwhich is translated,<br \/>\n\u201cMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?\u201d<br \/>\nSome of the bystanders who heard it said,<br \/>\n\u201cLook, he is calling Elijah.\u201d<br \/>\nOne of them ran, soaked a sponge with wine, put it on a reed<br \/>\nand gave it to him to drink saying,<br \/>\n\u201cWait, let us see if Elijah comes to take him down.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last.<\/p>\n<p><em>Here all kneel and pause for a short time<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The veil of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom.<br \/>\nWhen the centurion who stood facing him<br \/>\nsaw how he \u00a0breathed his last he said,<br \/>\n\u201cTruly this man was the Son of God!\u201d<br \/>\nThere were also women looking on from a distance.<br \/>\nAmong them were Mary Magdalene,<br \/>\nMary the mother of the younger James and of Joses, and Salome.<br \/>\nThese women had followed him when he was in Galilee<br \/>\nand ministered to him.<br \/>\nThere were also many other women<br \/>\nwho had come up with him to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>When it was already evening,<br \/>\nsince it was the day of preparation,<br \/>\nthe day before the sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea,<br \/>\na distinguished member of the council,<br \/>\nwho was himself awaiting the kingdom of God,<br \/>\ncame and courageously went to 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