 It is the ever-forgiving God who hangs there. He opens wide the compassionate channel of a new and definitive era of mercy. God always listens to those who make the decision to follow him, even though sometimes it may appear that he remains silent, that he does not want to listen to us. He is always attentive to and considerate of the weaknesses of his creatures, but it is so that he can forgive them and help them to rise up higher.