August 14, 2018 Tuesday, 19th Week in Ordinary Time 1st Reading:
Ezk 2:8-3:4
Gospel: Mt 18:1–5, 10, 12–14
The disciples came to Jesus and asked him, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”Then Jesus called a little child, set the child in the midst of the disciples, and said, “I assure you that unless you change and become like little children, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever becomes lowly like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, and whoever receives such a child in my name receives me.“See that you do not despise any of these little ones, for I tell you: their angels in heaven continually see the face of my heavenly Father.“What do you think of this? If someone has a hundred sheep and one of them strays, won’t he leave the ninety-nine on the hillside, and go to look for the stray one? And I tell you: when he finally finds it, he is more pleased about it than about the ninety-nine that did not get lost. It is the same with your Father in heaven: there they don’t want even one of these little ones to be lost.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
It is not an exaggeration to say that faith can move mountains. Nothing is impossible to a man who has even but faith the size of a mustard seed. To understand what Jesus meant about the power of faith we need to go back to Jesus’ time where technology was dormant and moving mountains was next to impossible.
Faith is “the realization of what is hoped for and the evidence of things not seen” (Heb. 11:1). There are many things that we hope for – things we are not sure of. For example, we are not so sure about the existence of heaven and earth because no neighbor has returned from the dead to testify to their existence. But we still hope we will be in heaven one day. On what basis? On the basis of the evidence of faith itself. This is what the Letter to the Hebrews mean by Faith being the very evidence of things that are yet to be seen.
Faith can refer to the defined doctrine of the Church, or the Providence of God. It can also refer to our daring access to the bounty of God’s resources. Whichever we mean by faith, it is a gift from God, and it goes with the gifts of hope and charity. How are hope and charity related to faith? Our quote from the letter to the Hebrews (supra) establishes the relationship between faith and hope. As to its relationship with charity, Mother Teresa of Kolkata tells us that “Faith in action is Love; Love in action is Service.”
With hope and charity as the constitutive powers of faith it is not far- fetched that faith can go as far as moving mountains. – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.
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