As reminders on our way, we follow the catechumens and candidates for full communion with the Church as they immerse themselves in the final period of preparation for receiving the Easter sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist. Now, doors are about passage from one kind of human activity to another. To go on a gurney through a sliding door into a birthing room is to pass over into becoming a lifegiver. To pass through the front door of a house into the foyer of a home is to go from being kind of an outsider to becoming kind of an insider. To go through a door into the death chamber of a high-security prison is to pass over into the final human activity.
Doors are also about access.
Credential-bearing diplomats are ushered through the doors of heads of state to be presented as ambassadors of their nations. College students enter the doors of academe, which open for them the unlimited opportunities higher education can afford. So, too, the doors of Head Start can be the gateway to a lifetime of learning, growing and succeeding. Yes, because Jesus passed through the door of death to rise gloriously on Easter Sunday, so, too, we His followers can pass through the door of grace into the mystery of God's eternal plan for our salvation. He is the door to freedom for us imprisoned by our pride, our arrogance, our greed and our lust.