Fr. Jorge Miró shares with Exaudi readers his commentary on the Gospel for this Sunday, April 6, 2025, entitled “He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone.”

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In recent weeks, the Word of God has taught us that existential pride is one of the most serious problems facing humanity today. A true worm of the soul that leads us to distance ourselves ever further from God and provokes a progressive hardening of the heart.

Therefore, we begin Lent with the imposition of ashes. A sign meant to remind you that you are not God. That you are not the Creator, but the creature; that you are not the Lord, but the servant; that you are not the Master, but the disciple.

And so, we begin a journey of conversion, starting in the desert and continuing until Easter, the encounter with the living and risen Jesus Christ, who gives you salvation as a gift.

The Lord wants to give you a new life. He has announced this to us in today’s Word: “Remember not the former things, nor think of the things of old; behold, I am doing something new; it is already springing up, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the desert…”

A new life, so that whoever finds it knows they have found the pearl of great price. This is the experience of Saint Paul: “I consider everything loss compared to the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost all things, and I consider everything rubbish, that I may gain Christ.”

Salvation is a gift that Jesus Christ gives us. We will sing it in the Easter Proclamation: He has paid for us to the eternal Father the debt of Adam and, shedding his blood, mercifully cancelled the receipt for the old sin.

But we can accept or reject this gift. This is the mystery and drama of freedom. And this is the profound conversion to which we are called every day: to let Jesus Christ be Lord of your entire life or to live in idolatry.

The Gospel shows us some signs of accepting the gift of salvation: to live in truth and to live in mercy.

Those who accept salvation reject sin, but save the sinner. They do not call “good” what God says is evil. They do not live in relativism, nor in the egocentrism of believing that one is the master of good and evil, nor do they live following the whims of society.

Likewise, they live listening to the voice of the Lord, open to His Spirit, docile to His Word… fostering goodness and virtue… but they do not judge or condemn, but forgive, help, and save the sinner, because God does not desire the death of the sinner, but rather that they convert and live… and in the Kingdom of Heaven there is more joy over one sinner who converts than over ninety-nine righteous people who are already converted.

Furthermore, he lives in humility. Precisely because he knows that everything is a gift, that everything is grace… this is why he can approach others with mercy. That is, looking at others as God looks at them. Therefore, let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

Come, Holy Spirit!!