NOT ANYONE SAYS: "Lord, Lord ..."
Faith is the foundation of every relationship with God
I Jesus' contemporaries had the grace to see and to meet him in person, but how many of them were known to have before the Son of God? The coherence of life with what we believe is not always easy.
The Gospel of Matthew that is proposed to us this Sunday is essentially an invitation not only to have faith, but to transform it in the works. The Gospel says that those who knocked the kingdom of heaven calling upon the Lord will not come if they have not completed the works.
faith must be translated into concrete actions and not just theory or simple belief in God will say: but they had faith. Yes, but what kind of faith? What remains a dead letter in the human heart or the one that opens and bet everything on Christ and becomes a gift to others? Is not this the meaning of the evangelical comparison of the wise man who built his house upon a rock, against which any weather breaks? The risk is to be like the foolish men who founded the house on the ephemeral, exposing it to danger.
Nicola Gori
Courtesy of LA Saint Paul Sunday Magazine
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