With his preaching about the Kingdom of God, Jesus opposes a religiosity that does not involve human life, that does not question conscience or its responsibility before good and evil. This is also demonstrated by the parable of the two sons, presented in the Gospel of Matthew (cf. 21:28-32). When invited by his father to work in the vineyard, the first son impulsively replies, “No, I will not go,” but then repents and goes; in contrast, the second son, who immediately replies, “Yes, yes, father,” in reality does not do it, he does not go. Obedience does not consist in saying “yes” or “no,” but always in acting, in cultivating the vineyard, in realizing the Kingdom of God, in practicing good. With this simple example, Jesus wants to overcome a religion understood only as an external and habitual practice, which does not affect the lives and attitudes of people, a superficial religiosity, merely “ritualistic,” in the bad sense of the word. (Pope Francis, Angelus of September 27, 2020)