Vatican City - March 28, 2021 - Pope Francis presided over the solemn liturgical celebration of Palm Sunday and the Passion of the Lord at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter's Basilica. During the homily, Pope Francis invited the faithful to raise their gaze to the cross to receive the grace of amazement during this Holy Week. "Let us start over from amazement. Let us gaze upon Jesus on the cross and say to him: “Lord, how much you love me! How precious I am to you!” Let us be amazed by Jesus so that we can start living again, for the grandeur of life lies not in possessions and promotions, but in realizing that we are loved. This is the grandeur of life: discovering that we are loved. And the grandeur of life lies precisely in the beauty of love. In the crucified Jesus, we see God humiliated, the Almighty dismissed and discarded. 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. For that is where He is: in the least of our brothers and sisters, in the rejected and discarded, in those whom our self-righteous culture condemns.”