Be humble and enter through the narrow door

 This Sunday, Jesus asks us to strive to enter through the narrow door into the Kingdom of Heaven.  For he says that there is another wider door through which many enter and are lost, which is the door of the world.  The deacon tells us that Jesus himself is that narrow door, for he has already told us that he is the way, the truth and the life.  So if we want to enter through the narrow door we must be like Jesus, make ourselves small, humble as Jesus, who is worthy to become man to give us salvation through his sacrifice on the cross, so, humble we can enter through that narrow door.  And in what does this humility consist?  I think of it in obeying the Father and imitating Jesus, becoming a servant of all.  Let us not fall into the false humility, which I read recently does not come from God but from the evil one who wants to turn us away from God by wanting us to think that there is no forgiveness for our sins.  Instead the humility that comes from God, it shows us the sins committed without forgetting that God is merciful and that we all need his mercy, that is, we all need his forgiveness that Jesus brings to us in the sacrament of reconciliation.  And not only his forgiveness, but we have to recognize that we need God in every aspect of our lives.  As the deacon told us, Jesus is the way of goodness, of love, of the sacraments of the church.  Hope and at the end of our days Jesus recognize us and do not close the door, so we strive to be humble and imitate Jesus, as Saint Francis of Assisi would say, in being a living Gospel.