Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion

A Reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Philippians.


Make your own the mind of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped.
But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are; and being in every way like a human being,
he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross.
And for this God raised him high, and gave him the name which is above all other names;
so that all beings in the heavens, on earth and in the underworld, should bend the knee at the name of Jesus
and that every tongue should acknowledge JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, to the glory of God the Father.


This is one of my favorite passages in all the Epistles. I get goose bumps reading it to this day. There are few greater exhaltations to the glory of God than these words of St. Paul. I hope that you may find the same inspiration in them as I do.