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Key
words and phrases: Increase our faith, did what was commanded
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the point: In this Sunday’s gospel the apostles ask Jesus to “increase [their] faith.” What he gives them instead is greater confidence in the power of the faith they already have.
What is this faith?
It is obedience to responsibility, a matter of willingness to undertake decisive action for the sake of God’s kingdom. Even faith that “feels” small possesses great power.
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the first reading: Habakkuk laments because he is faced with so much violence and evil.
God, however, has a longer view of history—these immediate events do not tell the full story of God’s saving vision.
Whereas Jesus describes the responsibility of faith, Habakkuk describes where our faith leads: “the just one . . . shall live.”
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to our experience: We sometimes think people of great faith are those who do big things for God and church. Faith is as readily expressed in simple acts of everyday service.
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