If I am to walk in the footsteps of Jesus, if I am to live out my baptismal calling, I must continually change for the better. I must grow, I must daily change my mind and heart and believe the Good News. (Mk.11:15) I must continually seek to change my evil ways. I must change my good ways to better ways, I must live a life of Gospel penance (conversion). Daily conversion means, first of all, believing more and more in God’s love, trusting in this love, living in this love. Daily I need to grow. In Baptism I am washed clean. But if I live in a world marked by evil, I experience all sorts of inclinations to evil, I commit sin. So I must struggle to follow Jesus. I need the grace of the Spirit to overcome evil and make good choices. I am called to enter daily into the dying of Jesus, so as to share ever more in His risen life. Little by little I become holy and more alive in Jesus. I grow in responding to the grace of the Holy Spirit. I grow in making good choices, seeking the Father’s will in my daily life. My conversion takes on flesh and blood in my daily life. When I am thoughtful and considerate to others I am responding to God’s love. When I visit someone in the hospital or respect my neighbour, “What you do to one another, you do to Me.” (Mt. 25:31-46).