“Enter through the narrow gate.”

In today’s Gospel, Jesus gives us a serious warning: whoever wants to enter by the path that leads to life, must enter through the narrow gate. In a society in which it seems that anything goes and where hectic life and the desire to produce and consume exhaust us, that warning may sound out of context. It is not a matter of returning to a life of enslaving and meaningless norms, but rather, of seeing what is the horizon that illuminates our life and what is the path that leads us to Him. If the horizon is that of the Kingdom of God and his justice, as it was for Jesus, then the way is love. It is a love that takes us out of ourselves and leads us to taste the value of giving ourselves to others, of solidarity, of coherence with what we have discovered as a way of life. The renunciations that this way of living entails are the narrow door through which Jesus entered in the first place.