The motto “Pilgrims of Hope,” proposed by Pope Francis for the Jubilee, outlines for us the horizon we must reach: it is a journey that involves not only a change of place but also an inner transformation.
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It is impossible to know how many of us around the world watched, through the various media, the scene of the opening of the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica on 24 December. The beauty of the place and the prayerful atmosphere of the assembly must certainly have been contagious. But even more striking was the sight of Pope Francis, frail in his wheelchair, almost as a proclamation of our needy humanity, and immersing himself in an infinite ocean of hope.