Sunday Meditation: Every Knee Will Bend for Our King

It’s a complicated set of readings for today, Palm Sunday, so I am going to go with the Second Reading for meditation.  This is one of my favorite passages from St. Paul’s epistles.  Those of us who pray the Liturgy of the Hours see it come up frequently, at least once per month.

 

Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God,

            did not regard equality with God

            something to be grasped.

Rather, he emptied himself,

            taking the form of a slave,

            coming in human likeness;

            and found human in appearance,

            he humbled himself,

            becoming obedient to the point of death,

            even death on a cross.

Because of this, God greatly exalted him

            and bestowed on him the name

            which is above every name,

            that at the name of Jesus

            every knee should bend,

            of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

            and every tongue confess that

            Jesus Christ is Lord,

            to the glory of God the Father.

                - Phil 2:6-11

 

Very well read by Jonathan Roumie.

 

And this little prayer for His triumphant entry into Jerusalem.