Isaiah 55:10-11/ Ps 65(64)/ Romans 8:18-23/ Matthew 13:1-23 Consider two people attending the same Mass on a Sunday. They hear the same readings, music, and homily. When they leave church something different has happened inside each of them. One of them is already thinking about lunch, what to do that afternoon, the emails piling up at work. By the time they reach home there is no memory of a single word of the Gospel yet alone the homily. The other person heard one line that

Zechariah 9:9-10/ Ps 145(144)/ Romans 8:9, 11-13/ Matthew 11:25-30 Think back to Palm Sunday and the image of Jesus entering Jerusalem. He did not enter the city with a flourish of kingship and splendour. He rode on a borrowed donkey. The crowds greeted their Messiah, ready to crown a great leader, only to see him approaching on a donkey, his feet almost dragging on the ground. This is what the prophet Zechariah foretold, a king, a triumphant saviour, who would come not with