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Sunday 6 October 2019

Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C

Word for today
The Gospel of Luke 17:5-10

Add Faith

What is faith made up of? What is faith? Everything that lives in the most diverse forms is made up of and is part of the same living energy, the same energy of life that the Holy Spirit nurtured during creation to give life to the universe. A sycamore is energy of life in the form of a tree. The ocean is energy of life in the form of water. Light is energy of life in the form and frequencies of light. The very cells of our body are energy of life which, since our conception, have multiplied and become specialized turning into neurons, muscles, bones, blood, liver, heart and finally a human being. In the creative act, the energy of life does not have form and can become anything it needs to become and it appears to us in the infininte forms and multiple marvels that we know. The energy of life is at the service of life itself and of man and cannot but perfectly obey what it needs to be. Man is not a creator, God is the creator, but man has received the gift of being able to shape the energy of life according to his necessities and desires.
The limitless force given to man, capable of organizing and giving shape to the energy of life is faith. Nothing is impossible to the person who has faith, says the angel Gabriel - the one who stands before God - to Mary, revealing to the world the greatest truth and secret of life. All it takes is faith as big as a mustard seed, Jesus said, to tell a sycamore to plant itself in the sea and the sycamore will certainly do it and, bowing after having executed the order, it will say: I am a useless servant, I did only what I had to do. Faith orders, faith organizes and gives shape to the energy of life until it attains its own desires. But how does it work?
First. Our desire must be adherent to God's desires. Desiring wealth and wellbeing, health and happiness only for personal gratification, while fighting with one's neighbor, while competing to gain more power and prestige and to be seen by others is not according to God's desires. Desiring to dominate is far from God's desires and one does not use the energy of life, but that of death; this is why blood, the energy of the blood of millions of people is required.
Second. Anything we truly desire needs to be contemplated in our mind and in our heart continuously, without stress or anxiety but, at the same time, without getting tired, working every day to do our best, always and in any circumstance. 
Third. Anything we truly desire needs to be contemplated with love towards ourselves and others even if others do not approve or understand, but object and work against us.
Fourth. Anything we truly desire needs to be contemplated with a clean spirit, by asking God's forgiveness for our lack of love and by offering forgiveness to our brothers for their lack of love.
Fifth. Anything we truly desire needs to be contemplated with determination, with no doubts or uncertainty. The universe is ready to obey our desires of well-being and beauty.
Sixth. Anything we truly desire always needs to be contemplated with total gratitude even if things do not turn out as we desire or want. Gratitude keeps us always and perfectly connected to God. 
Seventh. Now you can use the energy of faith, now add faith, even just a single grain of faith. Add the certainty that what you desire will become true in your life and it will in a very peaceful, perfect, and abundant way.