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Accept the neighbor as he is and helps him change.
We aren’t usually the ones that handle changing the other and helping him change himself. I recently talked to a boy; he was a young man, he was about seventeen, maybe eighteen years. He spoke of his father drinking and being very glad his father was different. He asked me, “How would you handle such a situation if your father drank? You would, you also talked to him, but he wouldn’t want to be told! What would you do then?” At first, I didn’t know what to say. I noticed that it was severe and necessary for the boy. Then, however, I realized one crucial thing and told him: “To want to change a person and to love man, these are two things. If I want to change someone by force, that means him I do not accept as he is; I want him else. I want him to change. But like this in this way, I will only make it even more inaccessible and not help it at all.
The second thing is to love a person. He who loves receives the other person as he is, even with his mistakes and shortcomings. When I strive to change at all costs, man, I probably won’t make it in my whole life. But when I love the other, and that honestly, as he is, he will know his worth and change himself.” Sometimes we wanted to fight evil, change people, and so on. But it doesn’t seem to be the best way to turn others at all costs, to change, to blame them, … but the most viable way is to do good, simply love.
Today’s Gospel is made up of two wholes. The first whole is the narration “Of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with the blood of their victims” (Lk 13: 1) and of the eighteen, “upon which the tower in Siloam fell” (Lk 13: 4). The second whole form talks about a barren fig tree (cf. Lk 12: 6-9).
These two units form a unity – one whole. First, we are talking about repentance, to which even such misfortunes as the lead here are supposed to lead us, they mention; for the guilt of those to whom troubles have come is not greater than the guilt of others, and we all need repentance. Then there’s the fig tree, which does not bear fruit. The Lord gives him another year, and he will be cautious to devote. If he still does not take the harvest, “then he will cut it out” (Lk 13: 9).
Repentance and doing good are probably how the message could be captured in a nutshell of today’s Gospel. These actions should go together; they should create a kind of unity as they form agreement in the telling of the Gospel today. On the one hand, it is repentance, which consists of the awareness of sins, in the confession of guilt, her repentance and turning to God. And on the other hand, then
followed by bearing fruit or simply doing good. It is not enough to act,
repent, repent of sins, and fight evil, but good must also be done to build the kingdom of God. This is our human life: repenting and bringing the fruit of good works, and thus turn to God. Sometimes we want to change others; we want them to be better: to stop drinking, smoking, or swearing, etc. We fight evil by force around us, but the effect seems to be minimal. Why is that so? Our world is like –

It probably won’t be a happy comparison, but it can help you understand the given things – it is like a failed cut beer. Indeed, many, especially guys, know how to he also cuts beer. Engraved beer is a combination of dark and light beers in one glass, not to mix. There is a piece of waiter art in it, and even an experienced waiter may not succeed from time to time; then, it’s just some mixture of light and dark beer. It is similar to our world: a mix of light and dark, good and evil, holy and sinful. Imagine that we would like it not to be in such a mixed beer dark but only light. Surely, we wouldn’t start pulling the dark out because it is impossible, as both beers are mixed, and we would remove the light ones with the dark ones.
But it could be done by constantly pouring light until we were, it was not wholly bright. The same must be done in life: do not fight with force power against evil and remove evil because we could also remove good, but good must be done all the time. For sin is nothing but a lack of interest, just as darkness is a lack of light. The more light, the less darkness; the more suitable, much less evil.
I am not saying that there is no need to fight evil, that there is no need to eliminate it, I’m just saying that corruption must be fought with good. What does this mean in concrete life? Where there is hatred, there must be love; where there is grief, there is a need to bring joy; where it is dark, light must be obtained…
The boy I mentioned in the introduction can’t help his father better than loving him. Mother Teresa says: “In the beginning, I was, she thought I had to convert people to faith. In the meantime, I learned that mine the job is to love. And love will turn whoever it wants.” 1 Only in this way can we transform the world around us and walk together for Christ.

Introduction.

The event described by the evangelist St. Mark teaches us to trust God. Light and darkness meet here, Jesus and man. Who can understand the blind man? What is the night of blindness of the eyes? We can understand the helplessness of blind Bartimaeus, how he spreads his hands to the light and begs for healing to see. “Rabbis, so that I may see.” personally, what he asks, and finally Bartimeus, Timaeus’s son, a beggar, is no longer blind, he sees … He no longer has to be a beggar, and he is even richer than many in the crowd around because Jesus praises his faith: “Go, your faith she healed you.” (Mk 10:52)

Sermon
Light and eyes are among the great gifts God has given to man. Without light, there would be no life on earth. The earth would be dead. In his love for the creation of the world, God “saw that light is good and separated light from the darkness” (Gen 1: 4). Without eyes, we would not have seen this gift of God. For the blind, the sun, the moon, the stars, the light bulbs shine in vain… The world of a blind person is a sea of ​​darkness. Bartimaeus’ blindness forced him to beg. We can hardly imagine how unhappy and humble Bartimaeus felt. When the opportunity arises to be like other people, to see, it is no wonder that he puts all his strength into his voice to shout the crowd around Jesus. From one sentence, “Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me” (Mark 10:47), one can feel pain, hope, desire, a hard fight. son of David, have mercy on me!” (Mark 10:47) The desire for light is stronger than the curiosity of those pushing around Jesus. Blind passion is a new path in life. In the end, he wins.

We are not blind. We see a fabulous, quenching sun that “enlightens every man” (Jn 1:19), and yet such a man may be blind. Blind in the soul. The work of God’s hands – the sun in the sky – shine on such a person in vain. Man in sin lives in darkness. The eyes of the soul do not see the love of God. The power and warmth of God’s love cannot make the soul happy when one does not desire to accept it as one’s own. A blind person in the soul does not want eternal, joyful life with God. By his sin, man voluntarily becomes blind. The blind man closes his eyes to God through his fault, his gifts, his eternal happiness. God wants such a blind man to shout, “Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me!” (Mark 10:47), also by our prayer to God. Let us not let the light of grace go out for us. May God alone is our light. Jesus said, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” (Jn 8:12) Through his teachings, miracles, and death and resurrection, Jesus gives us sufficient proof of this.
The world around us often wants to seduce us, to err on the path to Christ. It offers us a false light. The light that dazzles but does not heat. The light that is not Jesus has no power of life. Every morning outside of Jesus cannot last forever, and it goes out before we know it. The light of money, power, pride, glory, egoism, hatred leads man to eternal darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Jesus is the true and only sun that never sets. Only in the light of faith, the teachings of Jesus Christ, can we find the right path and walk it to a specific eternal goal.

The event of the healing of the blind Bartholomew does not end with the rally, but with the remark: “He saw and followed him by the way” (Mark 10:52). We, too, have already been healed from the blindness of the soul. Note SV. Mark is challenged to follow Jesus, even when we have to suffer and die with Jesus for our faith. Jesus had compassion for the suffering. Only Jesus is a guarantee to us that our lives have meaning. He is our Savior. We, too, need to come to life, be reminded, and see the facts of faith that in the kingdom of God, it is not the great one who commands but the one who serves. He is not a great one who is rich, but one who is poor in spirit. It is not he who wins, who avenges himself, but he who forgives. And it is not he who sees what he says he sees, but he who acknowledges his blindness and cries out, “Rabbis, that I may see” (Mark 10:15). It is not enough to know Jesus, but to live with Jesus. Then we are true Christians when we respond to Jesus’ words, believe in his words, and accept them. Such a living faith heals blindness and gives, as if new eyes, a new vision to us, the followers of Jesus.
Let us not be afraid to call for those who are not yet aware of their blindness. At that time, Bartholomew was brought to the side of the road by Jesus. We cannot do everything for others, but let us do what we can for others so that they too can live happily in the light of Jesus’ love.

Ingersoll was known as the author of several books against the faith. A priest was also present at one dinner. The writer told him that she wanted to talk to him in private about the faith. The priest agreed but asked the writer if he would first tell him what he had experienced on the way to dinner. He said: “

A beggar stood on a street corner, leaning on his club. Two boys ran up to him and started mocking him, then insulting him, and finally, one of them kicked his club, on which the patient leaned and fell to the ground. Nanny, “the writer responded.
The priest remarked on this. “Many people find themselves in a situation where neither science nor the skill of people, only faith, can help them. And you, my friend, are attacking them as hooligans with your attacks on faith, boys, what they can lean on in their hard lives.” The writer became severe. He understood. We also pray for those who do not act responsibly towards the goal of their lives.

Let’s open our eyes more and realize what today’s passage about the healing of the blind reminded us. Let’s do this with the prayer of a soldier who was wounded in battle and was afraid that he would go blind: Sir, don’t take the light from my eyes. But if it is your will, let me not at least lose the light of faith. Jesus, son of David, have mercy!

Where to pray?
Some people best meet the Lord in the twilight of one, a remote temple or a lonely chapel. Some prefer it to thrive when they go out on the patio, into the garden, or into the fields, for deep nights, under a sky full of stars, when the voices of this had died down of the world. Others feel more connected to God when they look closely on some flower or when wandering looking to beautiful landscape or secluded on a hill.
Some people have never felt God’s presence so strongly as when visiting a sick man who spread around unpleasant odor, or when penetrated some dirty neighborhoods to bring a smile and a kind word to the poor. Some people cannot concentrate in a group of people who prays; others need to lean on a group.
When to pray?
Some people feel rested, fulfilled in the morning after waking up rooms and this is the best time for them to concentrate and pray. Conversely, for people who have a rich subconscious, this happens: during sleep, their subconscious mind takes advantage of the waking presence consciousness invades who from where and attacks the whole as a thief an area of ​​personality where much of the night works according to your taste. As a result of this nocturnal invasion, these people are waking up tired and in a bad mood, they are more tired than when you do they went to bed as if they had been fighting all night against I don’t know what enemies. I have met people who feel great about this phenomenon, resisting every prayer, starting with its name. They don’t know why. But soon, an unconscious association between the bad is revealed mood and sleep on the one hand and prayer on the other on the second, because both of these matters were each morning in a row year together.

The best time for prayer is usually early evening. In everything, the traffic had subsided. The bright light passed, and everything seemed to becalm and rest. The day’s fight is over, and it’s a nice and quiet moment. Some people prefer to pray late at night. They are certainly people who are worthless in the evening; they want to sleep. For those who do not, this may be the time for prayer best: all work is over, everyone is asleep, it’s everywhere silenced, it invites everything to be intimately shared with the Lord. In the biblical tradition, people enjoy and look for the night as an ideal moment to share with the Lord. So did Jesus.
Absolute spontaneity?
We live in an era of spontaneity. No regulations are tolerated. There is a mechanical resistance to everything that would mean authority, paternal supervision … There has been a kind of reign since Bonhoeffer’s time, a myth that controls all classes of people and is accepted as absolute truth: the maturity of humanity and therefore the maturity of the individual. These are two myths; in fact, only the only myth before the serious analysis does not stand. There are certainly clear and general principles: one who feels like an adult does not claim this. When someone into all the world, the parties announce their maturity; it is a sign that he is not an adult. An adult never feels that he is with him treated like a child. If someone feels like it’s with him treats him like a child, it is usually a sign that he is childish.

Pray? Everyone in the church answers: whenever I do, he wants. What looks like maturity has a lot in its childhood. What if we made this attitude general conclusions? Study? When I have a taste. Work? When I want to. Where would the world go with such spontaneity? Probably to childish anarchy in the name of adult maturity. In a spontaneous conversation, many – almost the majority – They entrust that if they do not pray in the Community, then never they do not pray in private, and if they do not pray in one for a specified period, neither in the Community nor in private.

The fact that a person has reached his maturity is an unfounded myth. Just look inside, and we will find it everywhere, failure to honor the commitments made; we also find that the word often means nothing.
I knew the insiders who put on their professional level aroused admiration for their performance and organizational skills: we’re able to run successful schools with thousands of pupils and the whole hospital. These people were adults in this area: they had a sense of order, punctuality, and responsibility. However, as they admitted, these people were in the process of fulfilling their religious commitments is very unreliable. Who understands this contradiction?
I believe that if you do not spend a certain amount of time together
Prayer organized by the Community is easy to attend because prayer as such is wholly abandoned. It is a need to establish a particular hierarchy of values, to organize your life according to it, and to give to God what is God’s. The Community should help overcome the weakness of the individual and set common lessons of prayers. This does not prevent everyone from enjoying themselves spontaneously, he did not establish his intense moments of worship. As we have said, I must never forget to pray it is not easy and requires effort; man instinctively keeps the law to a minimum. Therefore, he prefers any external activity, which is more accessible, before internal activity prayers.

To remain in prayer and always be prepared for the proclamation of Christ1 How many times have we been surprised by the visit, brothers, and sisters, who came unexpectedly? Luckily, we went shopping yesterday. Otherwise, we would be ashamed to have them, they had nothing to offer.
Jesus also says something joyful: “Keep your loins girded and your lamps lighted! Blessed are the servants whom the Lord finds on his arrival to be vigilant” (Lk 12,35.37a).
Older people remember when they were pioneers, as they said: Always
ready! However, Jesus speaks of a different readiness. He talks about preparedness to serve, be prepared for His second coming. Gird your loins in biblical times meant what to wear shoes today. Be ready to leave at any time. When we wait for a friend, we have things ready nearby for clothes and shoes to make him stay longer. It is our preparation, our hip belts and lighted lamps pure heart. Jesus longs for a pure spirit in which he still lives spiritually, and it dwells, as he promised (cf. Jn 14:23).
According to Jewish custom and other people in the Middle East, having belts is a metaphorical expression. Residents have long girded
bulky suits so as not to impede their movement when wandering on dusty roads. Even the lighted lamps symbolize the attitude of waking when joy is expected to come from someone. When we love someone, we expect them to come, or we are ready to follow him. And so, it is in the love of Jesus. Be prepared for the coming of Jesus it does not mean being stiff and scared. Only a pure and loving heart can wait for the Lord to rest. In anticipation, there may also be a heavy cross, heavy fighting, suffering, falls. But St. Father Pio says, “It is always necessary to go in the spiritual life forward, never backward. The boat, which remains standing and does not float further, is untied wind back. “
Our expectation lies in vigilance, in constant prayer (cf. 1 Sol 5.17). We are not waiting for me to do it tomorrow because I can’t catch it today. No, now God wants us all, as we are. This story is about how a man from Turin came to confess to a don Bosco. He asked him the last time he was in confession. The penitent replied that ten years ago. Don Bosco said, “Then there will be ten silver men.” “How’s that?” the penitent wondered, “I thought absolution was free!” But don Bosco replied very promptly, “So you knew it, and yet you waited ten years !!!”
Let’s not wait to start praying from tomorrow; let’s start today. Only with God does it pay to watch. Only with him will we gain eternity, joyful eternity. What about the visit? Always have supplied, so we always have something for them to offer. Therefore, let us fill ourselves with God here on earth to transform into Him, and they lived only in the presence of the Lord when He came.

Imagine playing a game with a coin. You throw the cash in the air, and when you bet on the side you bet on, you win. If you bet on the side where the coin did not fall, you lost. You say it’s right not to stop. But you have to vote, and it is not voluntary. What do you decide? If you win, you get everything; if you lose, you lose everything. We have to live in the world according to certain assumptions.
One, that we will surely be here permanently,
Two, that we could be here permanently,
Three, that it is uncertain whether we will be here permanently,
Four, that we will certainly not be here permanently
Five, that we are guaranteed not to be here long,
Six, it is uncertain whether we will be here in another hour.

At one point, Christ said that his words would not pass away, that all his predictions would be fulfilled for a time. Jesus Christ. What all needs to be said about him. We know God through Jesus Christ. We have reliable information about Jesus and tangible evidence in prophecies. And these prophecies, fulfilled and confirmed by events, also provide proof of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Reliable evidence of the fulfillment of the signs was followed by reliable evidence of miracles. Jesus and his apostles performed miracles in large numbers. When the prophecies were not yet fulfilled, there was no testimony other than the testimony of miracles. But the truth is that even gifts did not lead all people to faith. A blessing should lead one to think. To conclude that there is someone above the laws of nature. But not all people feel that way. According to Schopenhauer, there is no need to ask about the essence, meaning, and meaning. There is no God behind the world, but the pressure to live without reason and a goal.

According to Schopenhauer, everything in the world is moving blindly forward. There is a lot of suffering. Is salvation from this chaos and hell possible? According to Schopenhauer, only man can save himself. He has to start with art. Art relieves itself of existence. Man’s art rises above all that is limited. But this is not the last redemption of man. It gives up renunciation and resignation. Schopenhauer admired Buddhism. So, what do we have left? According to Schopenhauer, there is only Nothing ahead of us. But Schopenhauer’s work was not the last to reject God. Friedrich Nietzsche completed the absurdity of this thinking. His sentence is well known. God is dead. Nietzsche considered this statement to be a fact of fundamental importance to the world and man, which has unforeseeable consequences for the further course of history. The death of God means an extraordinary collapse in Nietzsche’s eyes. A bleak emptiness. Reckless living space, bottomless nothingness. His whole philosophy is hopelessness, aimlessness. What terrible consequences did this Nietzsche philosophy have? She created an image of a superman. Hitler accepted this philosophy of his. And we know how it turned out. They once asked Nietzsche what the greatest danger to man is? He replied sympathetically. What is absolute freedom? Don’t be ashamed of your actions. Everything is allowed. Against the teachers of wisdom and virtue, against the priests and saints who have divided things into good and evil, the praise of war, of struggle, of hatred, of hardship, of the glory of strong warriors, is now rising. His thoughts took place in gas chambers, where they destroyed inferior human material in bulk. His ideas are carried out by any terrorist who thinks that everything is allowed. Nietzsche realizes that he is destroying. He is considered a destroyer. The end of his life was tragic. Nerve collapsed. But the conclusion of all this is. Atheism gives man no perspective. May people who fight against them faithfully realize this.

To be free from material wealth.
I remember the film Winnetou very much. When I was a little boy, and this film went, he had to give up football and hockey, and he sat at the TV. And it would not be perfect for someone who tried to disturb me while watching him. We are all charming protagonists who fight boldly and bravely against evil and strive for peace and good, mutual understanding and love between whites and Indians. Very impressive is primarily the work called Treasure of silver lake. The gang chases after the hidden Treasure of the Indians – the Apaches. And bandits are willing to do anything – even plunder and kill – to get there to the Treasure and owned it. And we know how it ends: they get to the Treasure, and when it does, they have at their fingertips among themselves they are killed, so they are stingy.

Wealth, money, and the pursuit of it all. Why all this? What does it lead to? To death, pain, grief, and often murder. So, are the treasures of this world? And Christ is telling us today, “Fool! They will ask you tonight your life and what you have earned, who’s will it be” (Lk 12:20) ?! And elsewhere, the Scripture says, “Do not gather treasures on earth, where their moths and rust destroy and where thieves conquer and steal. You are in heaven to collect treasures; there neither moth nor rust destroys them, and there thieves they do not conquer and steal. For where your Treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Mt6,19-21).

Jesus does not say that we do not collect treasures; on the contrary, we have to manage. But the question is, “What?” And “Where?” To collect. Let’s start with “Where?”. Where, i.e., where should we store its accumulated treasures. Christ says in heaven, “Gather in heaven their treasures’. This is important because he who gathers in heaven does not have to worry about his treasures. For there shall they not destroy their moth, and rust and thieves run not there: for they are gone into heaven. They will not get it. So, you don’t have to worry about your Treasure if you save this place. The thief won’t take it from you. It can happen, and it happens here on earth, but in heaven it is something entirely different. He who accumulates for heaven can live as carefree and contented, and not for yourself.

Now let’s ask, “What?” What are the treasures that say our Lord? First, they do not seem to be material: they could not trust them, they do not destroy, thieves do not steal them. Today, thieves do not steal only what does not exist. I don’t have to talk about it; after all, we meet with it every day. Treasures are laid up in heaven and are inaccessible to thieves because they are invisible to them, immaterial
and spiritual. They are treasures springing from a pure heart, overflowing with love. We already get them here on earth, but they are worth eternity. Nothing is needed extraordinary, and yet such a treasure can be of great value. Sometimes it is a smile, good word, advice; other times just hearing, … Little things that, in fact, they are not small. Someone wise once said, “Perfection is attained in trifles, but perfection itself is not a trifle.” Nothing is small that does with great love. The price of our deeds is given by the passion with which we do them. And so, it doesn’t matter so much what I do, but rather how I do it. Natural treasures our deeds are done out of love. And it is not true that the greater the activity, the greater the Treasure, but the greater the love put into action, the greater the Treasure.

Let’s take Veronica, who wiped the bloodied face of Jesus. Well, what a big deal she did? Nothing, she just took a towel and wiped his face. Nothing special. So, she did a little? Not at all, very much. Imagine Christ: he had a crown of thorns on his head, they struck him on the cheek, his eyes covered in blood, he might not have seen it correctly, where he walks. And here, Veronica’s wife comes and wipes his face. And that’s enough. And it was much, very much. Little happens when it is done for Christ, out of love for him. For earthly riches: property, money, … sometimes we cease to be people. At the same time, you have them today, and you don’t have to tomorrow. Because they are only earthly things. They rust, get dirty, destroy, or a thief comes, and you wake up in the morning and … The natural treasures are here – in your heart when God dwells in him, and you do things for him with love.

During this seminar, you will get a lot of instructions for prayer; you will get a lot of experience that you will apply in your personal life, each according to your nature, manner of life, gender, sensitivity, and sensitivity. Not every occasion and every type of prayer will suit everyone, and it is essential to realize that there are many ways to meet God. Since this seminar is on inner healing, you will get into more intimate connections with yourself and God. If you can say something to God, that means you have already understood something in the field of inner healing.

We can meet Jesus in prayer, but also phony and truthful contact with my brothers and sisters. Love God and love your neighbor – these are the two poles of true healing. The point is, to receive God’s love and give it to other people. When we pray, we enter into an intimate relationship with the Lord, in which He comes to communication between God and us. This communication is about me talking and him he listens, or he speaks, and I hear. Often our prayer is just a monologue in which I’m the only one talking, but I’m not interested in listening to him anymore. This is not an intimate relationship with God but only storytelling. What steps lead to meeting the Lord in prayer? Let’s explain.

First stage: Prayer as listening to the Lord
Prayer is an intimate relationship with God; it is a friendship with Jesus and a conversation. Praying does not mean doing something but being with someone. Praying is not just about asking but about asking
to talk to God. People often ask me, “How do I pray?” Many say: “I can’t pray.” If you have a similar problem, tell Jesus … and you’re already praying. Tell him you don’t know how to pray … and you’re already praying. Praying is not something to do, to say or not to say, to use or not to use reason. Praying means to be with someone, to be in his presence. To pray means to take a position of helplessness before the Lord, to stand in his presence, before him. When we listen to the Lord, we must be very simple. Imagine a person who likes classical music. He turns on the radio and searches for a program with classical music, and it does not find a suitable station, but leaves the radio on and continues what he did before. As soon as the classic starts the program, the music, immediately catches his eye because the radio has been turned on. During prayer, we must open our hearts to capture what God wants to tell us. And God is speaking to us many things, many circumstances, through brothers and sisters.

Prayer is also the opening of the heart so that we can listen to it. When we pray, often we say, “I do not hear what Jesus is telling me!” Jesus will not whisper in our ears. He might even whisper to us, but he doesn’t do it under normal circumstances. So how do we capture what does God tell us? Let’s remember the Scriptures when Samuel heard a voice. He went to Him and said to him, “Here I am, sir, you called me! “He told him,” The voice you hear is the voice of God, Samuel, so be it.
ready. But now go and lie down. And when you hear his voice again, you will know it is The voice of God “(cf., L Sam. 3: 1-18). You, too, must be prepared to capture the voice of God in events, in the circumstances, through the Bible or brothers and sisters. If your heart is open, you will surely capture the moment when God speaks to you.

Second stage: Prayer as opening the interior to the Lord.
If we are already trained in listening to the Lord, we can tell him what we are experiencing and what we are feeling. It may seem simple to you, but it’s not. I hope I don’t shock you when you do, I will say that often when we go to pray, we put on a mask. We are very angry with the Lord, but we will not tell him. We’ll tell the spiritual leader or confessor, but we will not disclose the Lord. We do not dare to go before the Lord, and they said, “Sir, I am angry with you.” We feel that we would not be with him respectfully enough. And instead of telling the Lord, we’re angry with him, we begin to praise him. We want to cry, but we try to be happy. We are full of fear, but we try to act like brave people. We cannot be ourselves before the Lord. We can’t cry in front of the Lord; maybe we can’t even dance in front of him. We do not know ours, then the inner feelings and our prayer are not in line with what we feel. Often with the Lord, we talk about things that have nothing to do with what we are going through at the moment. God knows everything about us, whether we tell him or not. If we are angry with him, he knows we are mad at him. We may try to hide that we are sad, but he knows that we are unhappy. Is so, it is useless to put on a mask. Let us be before God ourselves. Jesus was before  God himself. When he was filled with joy, he danced in the Spirit and cried out to the Father: “I magnify thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and you have revealed them to little ones” (Lk 10:21). However, when fear penetrated him, he asked the Father: “Father, everything is possible for you, please remove  this cup from me However, not what I desire, but  you desire.(cp. Mk 14,36). When he was on God angry, very clearly, and told him in front of everyone, “My God, my God, why have you  forsaken me? “(Mark 15:34). He was himself, and despite manifesting himself in this way, all his words addressed to the Father were a prayer. It was a prayer that came from the heart, not just from reason.

Third stage: Prayer as contemplation
We move on to the next stage when we contemplate God and remain before Him without saying something. When we talk about contemplation, we can say that we are sunbathing before God. When we sunbathe, we do not think about the Sun. But after an hour of sunbathing, we notice that we have changed, for better or worse, but that is the second thing. When we come before The Eucharist, and we remain before it; we also change, even if we fall asleep. It can be to prayer because we absorb the power that flows from the Eucharist during the blessing of contemplation. We often think that the perfection of our prayer depends on a lot of nice words. He will come for a man and tell me, “Father, I was in a prayer meeting. If you only knew how I prayed there beautifully! That prayer must have come from the Holy Spirit. “-” As you know, that your prayer was beautiful? “-” Because I said many beautiful words. “Like nice words, they were a guarantee of beautiful prayer. God is not a poet who needs our poems to us, he understood. Sure, God is also a poet, but above all, he is the Father. So the importance of our prayer does not lie in a style that when we use prayer, it is not in the beautiful words we choose, but in what is in the heart we survive. Prayer is most beautiful when we come before Jesus, remain silent before him, and look at him. The less we say in prayer, the more attractive we pray. Imagine the little girl who comes to her mother, says nothing, looks into her mother’s eyes.
Think about how your mother feels when looking at her daughter, who is looking into her eyes. That is the most beautiful meeting between a girl and a mother. So look at Jesus too, stay in his presence and say nothing – it will be a prayer of contemplation.

Fourth stage: Prayer as a transformation into Jesus.
In the next step of prayer, we not only unite with Jesus but change into Jesus. We become who we love. At first glance, this may seem strange, but we notice what Paul says: “I no longer live, but Christ lives in me” (Gal 2:20). If we reach to this stage of prayer, many of our questions will be resolved. You often ask if you can do a particular act. And I will answer you, “Do as Jesus would do.” And at that moment you have already received an answer. For example, if a mother asks me, “Can I be angry with my child?” I will answer: “Be angry with your child as if Jesus were angry with the child.” the answer. Sometimes it is necessary to show anger, but one cannot pour out one’s wrath on someone. This anger would certainly not come from love. Imagine a mother coming to me who has a 16-year-old daughter with whom she has serious difficulties. And this mother would beat her daughter. She would come to me and ask me a question: “She beat her, I am my daughter. What do you think I did well or not?” This topic can be guided to far-reaching discussions, but instead of discussing, I would say to my mother, “Follow Jesus, look him in the eye, and say unto him, Lord Jesus, I smote my daughter. Did I do well? – And then pray to get an answer. “There is no need for discussion; you just have to watch In Jesus’ eyes. And you will get an answer. The Fathers of the Desert had a similar experience of prayer. They always imagined Jesus; they looked into his eyes and asked him, “Is it okay like this?” And they certainly got the answer. they summed up the words, “In every problem we have, we just have to look Jesus in the eye.”

In Christian morality, two are different human abilities: reason and will. Greek philosophy spoke almost exclusively about the ability to know. Wanting how imagined follows almost automatically. On the other hand, Christians are all too aware that man sins consciously and voluntarily; he knows the good, and he does it anyway, something else. Why? However, it is not possible to explain this secret easily. We know well that the greatness and the glory or destruction of man are in his own will. How God created the world is free, so man is free to make his existence.
The famous sermon of St. John  Chrysostom  has the title: «Nobody
he alone cannot harm a person. ” Ascetic authors often repeat statements, such as “Nothing else needs me to be blissful but to want.” How about that are the Church’s opposite statements against the Pelagians related? According to st. Augustine has nothing but man’s sin. Without God’s help, we would not be able to do anything good or think, let alone do. Both statements, although so contradictory, are
they belong to each other. The Pelagians denied the necessity of God’s deceit. Without that, however, one cannot do anything. St. John Chrysostom, on the contrary, speaks of a Christian who receives the grace of God to be saved. So I want to. Christian authors do not mean “strong will,” which is talked about in psychological and pedagogical
books. People who have achieved the power of will are glorified by their outstanding life achievements, overcame their innate shortcomings and mistakes, and became what they seemed to have no
talents. However, Christian asceticism looks with sympathy to strengthen the will and create solid nature and genuine human personality.
However, it must not be forgotten that this is not the goal in itself, that many will not succeed, so that in the end, it is not enough “just to want.” Against one’s will, one suffers from natural deficiencies, diseases, and the influence of the environment. For his readers, “strong will” was not enough for them to escape the passion. However, God’s help depended on their will that their persecution was not to perish, but to gain greater happiness and holiness. Only in this sense is it true that nothing external can harm us. If we want, we can use everything for good, both failures, and human weaknesses. And what about working for God, progressing in virtues? Is it enough to want here too? Indeed, each of us received from God his vocation and his role. He has to draw a concrete image of perfection. It’s enough to make it happen to want. I can do everything that strengthens me (Flp
4, 13). But it must be God’s true calling, not illusion and delusion. Otherwise, it would be a “futile human act.”