Jesus says that the door is narrow:

“Try your hardest to enter by the narrow door, because I tell you, many will try to enter but will not succeed”.

Does Jesus, perhaps, says this to fill us with fear and to oblige us to observe the Law as the Pharisees taught? What does this narrow door signify? About which door is he speaking? In the Sermon on the Mountain Jesus suggests that the entrance into the Kingdom has eight doors.

These are the eight categories of persons of the Beatitudes:

• the poor in spirit,
• the meek,
• the afflicted,
• the hungry and thirsty for justice,
• the merciful,
• the pure of heart,
• the peace makers and
• those persecuted for justice (Mt 5, 3-10).
• Luke reduces them to four categories:
• the poor,
• the hungry,
• those who are sad and those who are persecuted (Lk 6: 20-22).

Only those who belong to one of these categories mentioned in the Beatitudes will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the narrow door. It is the new look on the salvation which Jesus communicates to us. There is no other door! It is a question of the conversion which Jesus asks from us. And he insists:

“Try your hardest to enter by the narrow door, because I tell you many will try to enter and will not succeed. Once the master of the house has got up and locked the door, you may find yourself standing outside knocking on the door, saying ‘Lord, open to us’, but he will answer, ‘I do not know where you come from’”.                                      

Luke 13: 24, 25

In what concerns the hour of judgment, now is the favorable time for conversion, to change our opinion, our vision on salvation and to enter into one of the eight categories.

Alleluia, alleluia.  I am the way,  the Truth,  and the Life,   says the Lord;   No one comes to the Father, except through me.    Alleluia, alleluia.

Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as  he went and making his way to Jerusalem.                

 Luke 13: 22

So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees.  Make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be disjointed but healed.

Hebrews 12: 12, 13