 
The Jubilee of mercy opened the 8 December 2015, the Christian feast day of the Immaculate Conception. Pope Francis I declared openly: This special jubilee will center the man and you will have to stand on two pillars: Grace and mercy. The extraordinary nature of the event arises in the wake of the difficult situation of man in the world: poverty, pain and suffering are oppressing over one billion people. In celebration of yesterday, Bergoglio recalled the primacy of grace and, above all, how it has “wrapped the Virgin Mary, making it worthy of becoming the mother of Christ”. One more time, as happened in the past with Pope John Paul II, Mary is given a key role: not only to the mother of Christ, but as intermediary between God and man. The feast of the immaculate conception is the day when you can combine Grace and Mary: the fullness and the greatness of God's love, that can turn men's hearts. Through God's grace and love everything is transformed: the beginning of the story of the man who was born into sin is transformed into salvific love. All this is possible because God is no longer building waiting to be searched by man, but it prevents, anticipates and saves man. The encounter between God and Man is, symbolically and spiritually, through the passage of the Holy door. According To Pope “pass through the Holy door means discovering the depth of the father's mercy”. Here's the second pillar. Still Bergoglio turns to the man saying is “must precede the mercy to judgment, rediscover those feelings of genuine love and tenderness”. And’ in the mercy and the mercy that man can find himself and live for himself, in the community with the brothers: to do this, I need to go back to basics, the simplicity of a Christianity lived in poverty, not forgetting that wherever there is man, there is also the Church.
Roberto Rossetti
 
