SEVEN HOLY FOUNDERS OF THE SERVITE ORDER. ---Memorial
READINGS:
1 R : Jm1 :1 - 11.
Ps 118 : 67, 68, 71, 72,75, 76.
Gos : MK 8 : 11 - 13.
JESUS SAYS THAT NO SIGN WILL BE GIVEN TO THIS GENERATION.
WHY GOING AFTER SIGNS AND " SPECIAL WONDERS " WRONG ?
BECAUSE THE SCRIBES AND PHARESEES THOUGHT THAT THEY CAN SUBSTITUTE FAITH TO SIGNS AND WONDERS.
REMEMBER THE CELEBRATED THEOLOGICAL INSIGHT:
FOR THE ONE WHO BELIEVES NO MIRACLE IS NEEDED.
BUT FOR THE ONE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE NO MIRACLE WOULD MAKE HIM BELIEVE.
SO THE BASIS IS FAITH OR BELIEF.
THEREFORE FAITH IS A PRECIOUS GIFT OF GOD.
APOSTLES GREW IN FAITH AND PETER ON BEHALF OF ALL PROCLAIMED THAT JESUS IS THE MESSIAH , THE SON OF GOD.
AM I GROWING IN FAITH ?
PLEASE NOTE JACOB STARTS HIS LETTER SAYING
WHEN YOU ARE HAVING ALL KINDS OF DIFFICULTIES YOU ARE BLESSED,= " LUCKY "
ARE!
READ FURTHER.
TRIALS GIVE ENDURANCE WHICH IN TURN GIVE WISDOM AND VIRTUE LEADING ONE TO TRUE KNOWLEDGE.
ALSO NOTE THE PSALM OF TODAY.
LEARN TO TAKE TRIALS AND " PROBLEMS " IN THE CHRISTIAN WAY.
