Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday Sermons
Our Lord entered Jerusalem on a donkey. A consideration of three attributes of the donkey illustrate why this was so fitting. A donkey is humble, not prideful or beautiful like the horse. It is also patient, even while enduring ill-treatment. The donkey is submissive - an obedient beast of burden. Call this image to mind when tempted to ostentation or pride.
We are fascinated by great power in small packages. Imagine if all your parents' love could be packaged into a button which they gave you as they lay dying. Our Lord did pour all His Love into the Holy Eucharist. It is not a generic love for all, but a Love specifically for you. Christ could have satisfied justice and redeemed us with just a sigh, but that would not have sufficed to express His great love for us. There is no demonstration for love like suffering. You know what someone truly loves by how much they are willing to sacrifice. With what quality do we invest our penances so as to demonstrate our love for Him?