In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.

I adore you with profound reverence.

I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My Immaculate Mother St. Joseph, my Father and Lord, my guardian angel, and deceit for me.

As we situate ourselves in front of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, we intensify our prayer given the occasion of Palm Sunday,

where the church invites us to focus much more directly on the sufferings of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

It will be the first of two times the liturgy will invite us to go through the whole narrative of the sufferings

of Jesus. The spirit behind these long gospel readings is to help us honor Jesus' request, watch and pray,

and to prayerfully discover and rediscover God's love for us expressed in his humanity.

The Blessed Sacrament intuitively instructs us

on the power of the cross and how we are affected by the cross.

It's not my cross or the next person's cross.

It's a sharing in that one cross.

It's a sharing, which is a consolation because when we say sharing, we mean that he takes

on the bulk of the weight of the cross.

In a way we tag along, but we really do bear the cross or we take part in his own cross.

And for Jesus to be present underneath those properties of bread and wine,

it is necessary that this passion, the suffering,

as the church teaches us in an unblooded manner,

but the same one, comes to the present moment.

The person who suffers is God the Son.

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