Remember the jar of expensive, perfumed oil that Mary pours on Jesus’ feet. We know Mary, Martha and Lazarus weren’t rich, and this oil was expensive. They would have been saving it for a special occasion.

The dispossession Christ experienced in his crucifixion is an act of solidarity with the dispossessed of the world.

In Palm Sunday services at the Vatican, Pope Francis said that to admire Jesus "is not enough. We have to follow in his footsteps."

At the beginning of his Passion, Jesus bears witness to the truth as he allows himself to be proclaimed the messiah.

Jesus does not condemn the woman caught in adultery, and he does not condemn us. But he challenges her, and he challenges us, to sin no more. 

The freedom we find in Christ can lead us to act on behalf of the marginalized.