Expectation

Today’s Gospel (John 11:45-56) ends on a note of expectation.

They looked for Jesus and said to one another
as they were in the temple area, “What do you think?
That he will not come to the feast?”

They were speaking of the Feast of Passover in Jerusalem.

But the Lord Jesus did come to the Feast and in doing so he would transform it - and us - forever.

On this day before Palm Sunday, on this last day before Holy Week, may we ourselves have a deep and powerful feeling of expectation for the events we will shortly celebrate and for the eternal life won for us by the suffering, death, and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.