-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at USCCB.org>>>>
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 4:00 Sat and 11:00 Sunday
Faith - access code
It seems that this year of faith, this political season, and the Scriptures are presenting me with the invitation to an essential connection with God for the transformation of my life and the world. That connection is accessed by faith first, faith essentially, faith alone.
It is by faith uniquely that we gain access to communion with God, God's great mercy, the throne of grace, the truth. It is only by faith and in authentic communion that one can be transformed from death to life, from isolated, nominal, Catholic to responsible conscientious voter, from simply observant Catholic to fully alive member of the body of Christ, the church.
Maybe I am starting to sound like Martin Luther with this faith alone stuff (you know the Protestant affection for the five alones), however, I think that this fundamental act of believing it is the inescapable foundational principle of our living life to the fullest in Christ. If you don't have faith - you cannot have a full human life.
Therefore, the question remains, "do you believe?". Yes, Lord, I believe, increase my faith!
2 comments:
Reading this homily prep helped me appreciate the transformative nature of faith. "It is by faith uniquely that we gain access to communion with God...." And I continued on in my mind, it is by faith that I find real purpose in life, it is by faith that even small, simple things in life become access points to God, and it is by faith that even suffering becomes worthwhile because of its redemptive value. It IS by faith that the true servant becomes the "great one."
"What do you wish me do for you?" - indeed, please make my faith great.
Having a VERY hard time with what you say because of circumstances in my life. I am dealing with people FILLED with faith during the easy and good times of life. Now, with difficulty, when the rubber hits the road, it's not making it. And I think of 1 Corinthians 13:13... Faith, hope & love these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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