‘Let us ask for the grace to be amazed,’ Pope preaches on Palm Sunday (Vatican Press Office)

“In the crucified Jesus, we see God humiliated, the Almighty dismissed and discarded,” Pope Francis preached in St. Peter’s Basilica on Palm Sunday” (video). “And with the grace of amazement we come to realize that in welcoming the dismissed and discarded, in drawing close to those ill-treated by life, we are loving Jesus.”