Repentance is a constant theme with Jesus and the Church sets time aside for it at two major periods in the Liturgical Year: Advent and Lent, but it is also something recommended for Fridays, to commemorate the death of Jesus on Good Friday...a death that freed us from our sins and gave us the opportunity to be "born again", and as time goes by, to return back to God over and over again after we fail, regress, sin. The parable of the fig tree graphically recounts God's mercy and the need for time " to get it right." (cf. Lk 13: 6-9). Jesus is not really talking about a fig tree and fertilizer, but US and the need to nurture ourselves, renew ourselves, turn from sinful ways, in a word, repent. May we have as much patience with ourselves in this repetitive process as he has with us, and may we never despair about eventually bearing the fruit we were intended to bear from all eternity.
Bro. Rene
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