Reading of the holy gospel according to Saint Luke 13:1-9
About that same time some went to see Jesus, and told him that Pilate had mixed the blood of some men from Galilee with the blood of the animals that they had offered in sacrifice. 2 Jesus said to them, “Do you think that this happened to those men from Galilee because they were more sinful than the others in their country? 3 I tell them no; and if you yourselves do not turn to God, you too will die. 4 Or do you think that those eighteen who died when the tower of Siloam fell on them were more guilty than the others who lived in Jerusalem? 5 I tell them no; and if you yourselves do not turn to God, you too will die.” 6.- Jesus also told them this parable: «A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he went to see if it bore figs, but he did not find any. 7 So he said to the man who tended the vineyard: “Look, for three years in a row I have come to this fig tree looking for fruit, but I never find it. Cut it, then; Why does it occupy land uselessly? 8 But the one who took care of the land answered him, “Lord, leave her this year yet; I’m going to loosen the soil and fertilize it. 9 With that perhaps it will bear fruit; and if not, you will already cut it».
Lord’s word.
The texts we have heard lead us to ask ourselves serious questions: “Is evil willed by God, or is God himself unable to fight evil? Why if I behave well, I’m not doing well and the one who behaves badly is doing well? Indeed, this was always the advice of our parents and elders. “Behave well” What’s up? Which is the answer?
And the impression we have is that our God almost never gives us a good answer, a reason that calms our pain or that illuminates, at least, our perplexity. The existence of evil, as evident as it is daily, causes greater problems for those of us who believe than for those who, because of it, stopped believing in God.
The presence of evil, an inevitable and irritating presence, is a call to conversion; evil must make the good less sure of his goodness and the wicked more sensitive to evil. The experience of evil is an invitation to conversion to God, the only one who can definitively free us from it. Those who suffer the most are not more guilty. Unjustified pain, whatever its causes, questions our securities, reminds us of our limitations and, much to our regret, puts us on the path to God. The evil we do, as well as the one we suffer, destabilizes our lives and makes us insecure: it makes us more aware of our weakness and insignificance.
We do not realize that evil, misfortune, calamity, can be a wake-up call from God, a severe invitation to take it more into account, a painful warning that shakes our indifference and makes the contempt of God with which we live fragile. daily: the evil known when we did not know God, makes us better appreciate the good that we have received from Him and weigh more carefully the risks we run with our ingratitude and contempt. Making us experience evil, in any of its forms, may be God’s reserved way of reminding us that he alone is our sure Good, the Good that fully satisfies our expectations as the only Good that lasts forever.
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