Listen to the homily here.
Notes:
Notes:
Faith—faith is a central word as Christians
· Several
weekends ago I preached about faith
· And
here again we hear the same word
o
“The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” (Luke)
o
“…the
just one, because of his faith, shall live.” (Habakkuk)
· Faith
is like a thread in the quilt of our belief
This weekend I would like to speak of how God teaches us
about faith
· First,
let us leave some of the unbelievers of God or religion or church with other
words
o Superstition
o Unintelligent
o Hocus
pocus
o Something
less with science
o There
is betting reason
o False…false…false…false…false
· Our
faith is different with these different positions
1.) Our
Catholic Church is both faith and reason
· “Faith and reason are
like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth;
and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to
know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come
to the fullness of truth about themselves.”
· St. John Paul II, one of our brilliant man in the 20th
century in our world
2.) Listen
to God of what faith is
·
Jesus said: “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this
mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.”
o
Faith is stronger than our own
reason
o
God is smarter than any human
person
· “For the vision still has its time, presses
on to fulfillment, and will not disappoint; if it delays, wait for it, it will
surely come, it will not be late.
The rash one has no integrity; but the just one, because of his faith,
shall live.”
3.) And how
does God show us about our Church?
·
“For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and
love and self-control. So do not
be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord.”
What is faith?
Study it…pray for it…learn it…share it
· That
is one way to grow in our Catholic Church to really see and think for the
central belief and beautiful thread of God’s quilt of our lives
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