Newsletter – 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year C.

REFLECTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE – by Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart

Jesus is telling the Apostles how small their faith actually is. If their faith were bigger – as big as the size of a tiny seed, for example – they could command trees to fly through the air and land in the sea! So obviously he must consider their faith to be very small indeed.

How about your faith? Do you think it is large or small? Why?

What influences affect your faith? Has any life experience of yours increased your faith? What happened?

Has any life experience hurt your faith and caused you to have doubts about God? What happened?

Not only does Jesus expect the Apostles to do great things with their faith, but to also see these miracles as ‘no big deal’ – as if they were to say: ‘It was nothing. We were just doing our job.’

Have you ever done anything that impressed someone else, yet you yourself didn’t think it was such a big deal? What was it that you did?

Have you ever seen someone do something that impressed you, yet to that person it was no big deal? What did that person do?

Do you believe that having more faith – in God, in yourself, in the power that comes from the Holy Spirit – could really cause miracles to occur? Why or why not?

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