Fr. Jorge Miró shares with Exaudi readers his commentary on the  Gospel for Sunday, March 29, 2026,  entitled, “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.”

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 In these holy days,  we are going to celebrate the Paschal Mystery of our Lord Jesus Christ.  We too—you and I—  are called to live the  Paschal Mystery .  To live it, not to remain as spectators who watch from the outside a spectacle that may be striking, but which, deep down, has nothing to do with our lives, but rather to  place ourselves at the feet of the Lord to contemplate . To contemplate is not only to look; to contemplate is  to have the gaze of faith to enter into the mystery  we are celebrating and to  allow the mystery to speak to us , to speak to you in your own life. And this contemplation of the mystery of God’s love will lead you to follow Jesus Christ, to encounter Him, and to experience in your life what we celebrate in the Paschal Mystery.

We cannot follow Jesus  from afar ,  like poor Peter when they took Jesus to the high priest’s house. We follow Jesus “from afar” when we don’t let him be Lord of  our whole  lives, when we run from the cross, when we only listen to his voice when it suits us, when we set conditions for following him…

We are not called to “be far away,”  we are invited to sit at the table with Jesus :  I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you,  with you!

The Lord wants to celebrate Easter with you!

The entire life of a Christian is about living the  Paschal Mystery.  The entire Gospel is the Lord’s ascent to Jerusalem. And so is the entire life of a Christian. “Going up to Jerusalem” is much more than a geographical ascent; it is an existential ascent: it is  taking up your cross and encountering the Lord in it ; living in obedience to God’s will and experiencing his victory in your life; seeing how the Holy Spirit makes your life new .  It is living  everything  with the Lord.

The  procession of palms  visibly expresses our inner procession .

We are called to ascend with the Lord to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover with Him , who  humbled Himself, becoming obedient unto death, even death on a cross. Therefore God exalted Him above all… and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Because  you go up to heaven  by going down.

The second reading has spoken to us clearly.  Two ways of living:  Adam , being man, wanted to be like God, but without God, he wanted to ascend to heaven by “climbing,” and his mistrust and disobedience brought us ruin.  Christ , the new Adam, being God,  emptied himself, taking the form of a servant,  was obedient unto death, and brought us redemption.

And this is the daily struggle. To follow Adam or to follow Jesus Christ. The choice is yours.  Will you remain a spectator? Or will you accept the invitation to sit at the table with Jesus?

Come Holy Spirit! (cf.  Lk_ 11, 13).