Hello to you all. I hope all goes well.

I have often thought that we as believing Christians are asked and challenged to believe in some fantastic things such as angels, souls in heaven, a God who really loves us, His Son who became one of us, suffered and died for us, and rose to new life as proof that we too will one day rise as well. The list goes on and on.

What is the glue that holds all this together? What is that one thing that enables to wake in the morning and say our prayers. Is it because our mothers told us that what good little girls and boys do? Yet we do it. We come together on Sunday to pray with others and receive a little piece of bread and a sip of wine and believe that this is the Body and Blood of the Lord.

That “GLUE” is what we call FAITH.

C.S. Lewis says to us today, “Faith begins when the soul stops demanding full understanding and learns instead to rest in the character of the faithful God who does not change with our moods and circumstances.”

Belief is something that, so many times, is hard to find. But we still say that we “believe”. We sometimes are like the desperate father whose son was possessed by a demon when Jesus told him that “all things are possible to those who believe.” The desperate father cried out, “Lord, I believe, help my unbelief.” (Mk 9:23). Is Jesus speaking those words to us today?

Peace and All Good,

Fr. Vinnie, fcm and the

Bros and Srs of the

Franciscan House of Prayer.