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Morning reflection catholic12/15/2023 Are you facing a new opportunity for evangelization or service but aren’t sure you can meet the challenge? With Jesus as your “fulcrum,” you can. Are you struggling with a sin pattern? You can move it as you stay rooted in Christ. Then we can move all the things that need to be moved in our lives. A typical comment from an actual subscriber: These reflections have taught me so much. Podcasts of the daily reflections are included in the Telegram app and daily email deliveries. Subscribe to the Good News Reflections email, podcast, and text message. The key, as in all things, is to stay connected to the Lord. Terry Modica’s daily reflections make the scriptures meaningful for your everyday life. We can’t “believe” our way into something that God doesn’t want for us! We need to be founded firmly on Jesus-on his wisdom, his will, and his plan for our lives. All the “mulberry trees” in our lives would literally fly into the sea! But that’s missing the fact that our faith is only the lever. It can be easy to read this passage and conclude that if only our faith were stronger, we would be able to do just about anything. That makes them awfully hard to uproot! But Jesus is saying that the “lever” of our faith doesn’t have to be large at all to move such a massive tree. Mulberry trees have very deep roots and can grow to be as tall as seventy feet. He tells his disciples that a rather small force-“faith the size of a mustard seed”-is enough to move a mulberry tree. This image of a lever and fulcrum can help us understand what Jesus says about faith in today’s Gospel reading. Martin Hogan continues to write many books on the Gospel Readings for each day of the Catholic Liturgical Year. ![]() The Greek philosopher Archimedes described using a fulcrum this way: “Had we a place to stand upon, we could even raise the earth.” New book for 2021 You Have the Words of Eternal Life Weekday Reflections for Liturgical Year 2020/21 at messenger.ie & veritas.ie Fr. But in order to do this, the lever requires an immovable point to pivot upon-a fulcrum. ![]() The ancient Egyptians and Greeks were the first to discover that by exerting only a small force at one end of a lever, they could move a large object at the other end. We all know what a lever is: a long stick or a rod used to pry or move something heavy. If you have faith the size of a mustard seed. Not a subscriber? Subscribe for only $12 (Save $4). ![]() Subscribers: Please log in to view the Mass readings. DAILY MASS READINGS AVAILABLE WITH A SUBSCRIPTIONĪccess daily Mass readings, meditations and articles, as well as special resources, by becoming a subscriber or logging in.
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