The importance of repentance.

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.

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