COMMENTS ON READINGS SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME XXVII. CYCLE C
1 st Reading: Habakkuk 1, 2-3, 2, 2-4
cry How long, O Lord, not you hear me? Do you cry out: "Violence" no save me? Why do I see misery, you show me work, violence and disasters, struggles arise, rise contests? The Lord replied: "Write the vision, make it plain on tablets, so as to read fluently. The vision awaits its time draws near term and will not fail, if it takes, wait, it must come without delay. The unjust has the soul swollen, but the just shall live by his faith. "
Psalm 94: If today you hear his voice: harden not your hearts. "
2 nd Reading: II Timothy 1, 6-8. 13-14
Dear brother: Rekindle the gift of God, which is in you of my hands, because God has not given us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power, love and wisdom. Do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord and me, his prisoner. Take part in the hard work of the gospel as God's strength. Please forward the vision I gave you with words of wisdom and experience with faith and love in Christ Jesus. Save this precious deposit with the help of the Holy Spirit who dwells within us.
Gospel: Luke 17, 5-10
At that time, the apostles asked the Lord, "Increase our faith." The Lord replied, "If you have faith as a mustard seed, you say to this mulberry tree," root uprooted and planted in the sea. " And I obey. Suppose your work as a servant or laborer as pastor, when returns from the field, one of you says, "Then, come and get to the table"? Would not you say: "Make me dinner, stick and serve me while I eat and drink, and after you eat and drink? Do you have to be grateful to the servant he has done as commanded? The same you: When you have done everything commanded you, say: "We are useless servants, we did what we had to do."
LIVING WITH FAITH AND LOVE IN CHRIST JESUS \u200b\u200b
Follow Jesus Christ, accept his word, calls for the free submission of intellect and the will of God. Thus, "with all his being, the man gives his assent to God who reveals himself" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 143). It is necessary therefore faith. And tell us precisely this under today's readings. Faith, and specifically, the obedience that comes from faith, "obedience of faith. "
Following someone is willing to go where that person tell us. It makes no sense to say: "I want to follow" and then added: "I'm not willing to obey." Therefore, the Apostles, who were willing to follow the Master and left home and property by him, feel the weight of "suffering for the Gospel", as Saint Paul says, and ask the Lord to increase their faith. Dan
Following someone is willing to go where that person tell us. It makes no sense to say: "I want to follow" and then added: "I'm not willing to obey." Therefore, the Apostles, who were willing to follow the Master and left home and property by him, feel the weight of "suffering for the Gospel", as Saint Paul says, and ask the Lord to increase their faith. Dan
the mark. Because faith is the secret of good monitoring of the Lord and because He is the one that gives and increases it. Jesus was very much like the request, which means humility by recognizing who weak and needy. And is willing to increase their faith, of course, precisely warning of force so great that it is no matter how small. "If you have faith as a mustard seed ..." The size of mustard seed is more or less that of a pinhead (see main picture). And yet, with that hint of true faith, true miracles are made. The Lord does not ask many things, not getting many merits or accredited progress. It just asks a little faith, a little, with sincerity, love and perseverance, will become great men of faith, as Abraham, father and model of faith, like Mary, performance perfect with it.
"Obey (ob - audire) in faith is to submit freely to the word heard, because its truth is guaranteed by God, the Truth itself" (Catechism, No. 144). And this obedience to God makes us free and us out of our poverty ("The just shall live by faith"), is joyful in us, we can not separate faith from love. "Live with faith and love in Christ Jesus." We are encouraged by these words today, the Apostle Paul, well knowing that without faith and love, reflecting a boundless confidence in our Lord, no true Christian can not support life demanding that the Gospel brings.
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