This Sunday, the Father Restores His Beloved Children’s Innocence on Calvary

On Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, Year C,we hear the culmination of Jesus Christ’s extraordinary story and witness his grand plan to restore the world to its original purpose and return his people to their innocence.

We all know how deep the pain of sin goes.

Sin has wrecked every life, and not in some abstract way. We can each name one sin — something we did, or something that someone did to us — that left a wound as fresh today as the day it happened.

And we each know exactly what we would do if we could go back to the moment right before we hurt the people we love the most, right before we were wounded by someone we trusted, right before we were forever changed. If we could, we would go back to that moment and get as far away from that sin as possible.

Now, imagine you were God the Father, and you could go back to the very first sin, the headwaters of the poison of sin, and cut all sin off at its source.

God created a Paradise for his children. He made Adam and Eve to be his pride and joy, in his image and likeness, and put them in charge of Eden. He gave them reason to know and contemplate the truth, and they used it to manipulate each other. He filled their lives with beauty, and they channeled it toward self-gratification. He gave them goodness to share and delight in, and they schemed ways to horde everything they could get for themselves.

They handed his Paradise to the devil, and like the vineyard workers in the parable, destroyed everyone who tried to restore it.

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