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Sascha Wil­son

Amid on­go­ing glob­al con­flicts, Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don says the same choice be­tween war and peace wit­nessed in the Pas­sion of Je­sus Christ con­tin­ues to con­front peo­ple to­day, with voic­es call­ing for peace over­shad­owed by vi­o­lence in the Mid­dle East and oth­er re­gions.

De­liv­er­ing his Palm Sun­day ser­mon at the Pro-Cathe­dral of Our La­dy of Per­pet­u­al Help in San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day, ahead of the Holy Week, he said he usu­al­ly asked wor­ship­pers to fo­cus on one bib­li­cal char­ac­ter from the events lead­ing to Je­sus’ cru­ci­fix­ion and jour­ney with him or her for the week.