What holiness is the Pope talking about? Not that of those who think of saints as people capable of solving life's difficult problems with miraculous interventions. And not even what seems like an unattainable goal, reserved for a select few. We are all called not to superhuman holiness, but to that which realizes us as creatures. And to reach this goal it is enough to implement the Word of God in everyday life with total donation, as the saints of all times have done. Von Balthasar said that the saints are «the most important commentary on the Gospel... They are the incarnation of the incarnate Word of God and therefore truly a way of access to Jesus». Augustine in the city of Milan, having before his eyes the example of Christians who lived the Word, exclaimed: "If these and those, why not me?". And he gave a decisive turning point to his life by starting his divine adventure.
There is a page of the Gospel, known as the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10, 25-37), which explains a path of holiness possible for everyone: becoming a neighbor to everyone.
And behold, a doctor of the Law stood up to test him and asked: "Master, what must I do to inherit eternal life?". Jesus said to him: «What is written in the Law? How do you read? He replied, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” He said to him: «You answered well; do this and you will live."
But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus: "And who is my neighbor?". Jesus continued: «A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers, who took everything away from him, beat him bloodyly and went away, leaving him half dead. By chance, a priest was going down that same road and, when he saw him, he passed by. Even a Levite, arriving at that place, saw it and passed on. Instead a Samaritan, who was travelling, passing by him, saw and had compassion on him. He came near him, bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine; then he put him on his mount, took him to an inn, and took care of him. The next day, he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying: “Take care of him; whatever you spend in addition, I will pay you when I return." Which of these three do you think was a neighbor of the one who fell into the hands of the bandits?". He replied: "Who had compassion on him." Jesus said to him, "Go and do the same."
A legitimate question from the doctor of the law. Who isn't interested in knowing how to save ourselves? Jesus' response is precise and exhaustive: "Love the Lord your God." And he consoles, because he promises mercy, consolation and the promise of the future, indeed eternal life. Is there anything else more necessary? Even that expert jurist knew that the law alone is not enough for life. Because if we happen to be attacked, stunned, beaten and abandoned, who will help us? The good news of this gospel is that someone passes by us and cares for us by bending down. It's next. Not the neighbor, but the one who comes close and has mercy on us, that is, God. Jesus had sent his followers to say that "The kingdom of heaven is near". Parable of the Good Samaritan and announcement of the nearness of the Kingdom explain each other.
We are the man who fell into the hands of bandits, and God came close to us like the Samaritan. Then it's our turn. If we do the same thing that God did, we continue to see him close by.
The Samaritan sees, has mercy and approaches. it is the way of behaving of Jesus who sees the sick, the blind, the future disciples. He has mercy from the beginning and to the end because "the Father is merciful". He approaches men, without distinction, indeed he prefers those who are far away and where he arrives you can see all the signs of the presence of the Kingdom of God.
The love of God and the love of neighbor are inseparable. The small and the pure of heart have no difficulty in understanding this. Throughout its history, Israel before and after has known the thousand faces of God's love that has always helped and saved it, even when it was more dead than alive. But the parable also describes love of neighbor; a false neighbor in the figures of the priest and the Levite who do not want to be contaminated; a true neighbor in that of the stranger who has compassion. At the end of the parable, "the same thing" remains to be done, to return what has been received from the love of God in Christ.

Who is the saved man? He is the same doctor of the Law because his neighbor in general becomes his neighbor. The rhetorical question became urgent: “Go and do the same”; repay the mercy that healed you and become a neighbor to the Samaritan as he was to you.
Cured with the oil and wine of new life in Christ, we are entrusted by him to the innkeeper, to the charity of our brothers, themselves compensated by him. Still the indissoluble love, of God and of others. With this parable we immediately understand why the primacy always belongs to grace.

What do we need to be healed from? Also from the behavior of the priest and the Levite in the parable. Precisely they, who were the main attendants of the temple of Jerusalem and were responsible for offering sacrifices according to the law of God, praying according to the law of God, teaching the people according to the law of God. So as not to forget it, they wrote it on small scrolls of parchment, which they kept in two cases fixed to the center of the forehead and on the right arm. A close collaborator of theirs was the doctor of the law who questioned Jesus and who was an expert in the Bible and the Law of God who he repeated continuously, to the point of learning very long parts of it by heart.

They had the law written on their foreheads and on their arms and recorded in their memories, but not in their hearts, the only ones capable of stopping their feet and extending their arms to help. Those who belong to Christ do it every day and on every downhill road.