TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY CYCLE TO C.
" Increase our faith ..." . (Lk. 17, 5-10).
This is the prayer of the first disciples of Jesus. This request seems accurate given the response of Jesus. The disciples are sincerely interested in following Jesus and implement their requirements. Any of us would have made the same request with all sincerity. Not so much seek exceptional power, but with the desire to get rid of our fears, overcome our resistance and make it to be bold in following Jesus.
" Lord, increase our faith " Is not that the prayer that we Christians do today? "Increase our faith" because continually we turn to your Gospel. Busy listening to our fears and our insecurities do not manage to hear your voice in our communities and in our hearts.
Jesus answers the disciples " If you have faith as a mustard " ...
The mustard seed is the tiniest seed, a symbol of the beginning of the Kingdom from human values \u200b\u200bnegligible. If we had faith as a mustard seed . 's a small mustard seed! But sometimes, our faith is much smaller. Do not fully entrust ourselves to God, to abandon ourselves to Him we go to him, but we made it secure our life and things just in case. With this image (of the mustard seed) Jesus is telling us that when we believe in Him when put all our trust in Him, no insurmountable obstacles. With Him everything is possible, and without him we were halfway.
live in a time of disenchantment, indifference, and relativism . Perhaps we ourselves feel our faith is fading or sometimes, is blocked. He who sincerely seek God is involved, more than once in the darkness, insecurity and even doubt. Christians need to learn to keep our faith and our confidence in this culture of unbelief, we need to move constantly, from doubt to confidence.
All that is important in our lives is always something that grows in us little by little (like the mustard seed ), as a result of a patient search and as a grace given us. We are not free from ups and downs and doubts. We are fragile beings and vulnerable. Our faith can begin to wake up again if you were right to scream from the depths of ourselves, the very prayer of the disciples of today's Gospel: " Increase our faith." It may seem a prayer too poor ... But part of our human reality that is also poor.
Then Jesus went from the image to another image mustard Agriculture: the " planting a tree in the Tues. Therefore it says, "you say to this mulberry , pull out your roots and be planted in the Tues and obey you . " What do these words mean? The "Mulberry" as the fig tree is figure the Jewish institution and any institution alienates us and stops us in our life. In figurative language, Jesus is to say that trust in requires a safe distance from any institution alienating their principles and ways of operating, we from living fully, to remove the operating alienating rupture must be such that includes the desire to the disappearance of everything that makes us experience the best in us.
So says, "you say to this mulberry , uprooted from root planted in the sea." is impossible for a mulberry plant in the sea: the fund, which is in this expression is the desire to break with all what ultimately enslaves us and prevents us from living a full life.
" We are useless servants, we did what we had to do . is striking that many have misunderstood this "said" The irony of Jesus and identified with the "poor s Servant ... "but what Jesus means is that if the disciples reduced to follow the same principles as the Pharisees, having faithfully observed all the law, before God will not be more than a" poor servants. "Jesus reveals that we are children of God and not servants. Paul reminds us:" So you are no longer a servant but a son " (Gal 4.7). In Jesus reveals the right attitude towards life: vivirnos as children of God. Whenever children are loved by God who forgives us and search for "seventy times seven." From this experience of being loved by God without limit or conditions, we are called to love "as He has loved us." This is the hope and joy that Jesus offers us in the Gospel.
Jesus is for us the definitive reference for our lives and for the whole Church. Jesus is for us the ultimate reason, the futuristic fantasy, the final speech about God and man, the inexhaustible parable about God, open to all ages. Jesus is the One who always gives us more, we offer a full life.
need to recover the fire that he ignited in his early followers and let us pass by his passion for God and compassion for all human beings.
Our prayer today, in the silence of our hearts, can be "Risen Lord, we trust what we weigh and separates us from Thee. In Thee we place all our trust. That we perceive the brightness of your presence in the midst of our weaknesses. "
Benjamin Garcia Soriano
October 3, 2010
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