St. Elizabeth Ann Seton 

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Community is a welcoming and active, Roman Catholic parish serving the community of Mill Creek / Bothell, Washington. Our parish is served by the Religious Congregation of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit under the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle. We are a diverse community of believers, guided by the Holy Spirit and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We are a community that welcomes all people, inviting them into our spiritual home as we deepen our relationship with God. We are one faith family, united by our Lord and Savior,  Jesus Christ. Welcome to our faith community. I invite you to join us for liturgy and fellowship. 

Dear brothers and sisters, today we celebrate Palm Sunday. Today we begin this celebration with a brief reading of the Gospel of St. Luke, where we hear about the entrance of Jesus to Jerusalem mounted on a colt. During this event, his disciples seemed to recognize the Divine Person of Jesus as their King. So important was this event that when the Pharisees asked Jesus to command his disciples to stop proclaiming: "Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in heaven on high!", Jesus answered, saying that if his disciples were silent, "the stones would shout". This is an event that would not go unnoticed.

As we heard in the readings, while Jesus was proclaimed King during his entrance to Jerusalem, the following Friday, people, including some who had followed him before, shouted: "Crucify him, crucify him!" Let us ask ourselves: why their sudden change of hearts? Perhaps it was because the people waiting for the promised Messiah and the coming Kingdom of God awaited an earthly kingdom. They were tired of the Romans who ruled over them. They wanted Jesus, as their king, to lead them to war against the Roman Empire and end their domination. People had not perceived in the teachings of Jesus that his Kingdom was not of this world. It was not a physical Kingdom, nor is it now, nor will it be a physical Kingdom in the future. As we have heard, the people crucified Jesus. Maybe everyone had a false hope. Maybe some of them thought that, at the last minute, the angels would descend from heaven, save Jesus from the crucifixion and defeat the Roman authority. As we already know, none of this happened. Jesus, like the Lamb of God, who was without sin, died for the sins of humanity.

In Jesus, the fullness of God was pleased to inhabit an earthly body. In Jesus dwelt the fullness of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. If people had perceived this mystery, surely they would not have crucified Jesus. Satan would not have influenced people to kill Jesus, an innocent man. Because Satan would have perceived that the death of Jesus would become a victory, while Christ Jesus would recover the kingdom that Satan had conquered through the sin of Adam. Through the deception of Satan, death came upon the world. Through the perfect sacrifice of Jesus as the Lamb of God, life came upon the world. "Therefore God exalted Jesus and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord, for the glory of God the Father”. (Phil 2: 9-11)
 
 
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We are St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish.  A diverse Catholic family guided by the Holy Spirit, committed to serve others and deepen our relationship with the Heart of Jesus. 

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church is served by the Religious Congregation of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit from
Christ the Priest Province under the
Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle.

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