NKCC

The Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reading I – Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4

Reading II – 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14

Gospel – Luke 17:5-10

Faith in Action - In today’s Gospel the apostles entreat Jesus:  “Increase our faith” (Luke 17:5).  He responds with two stories about putting faith into action—the surest way to increase one’s faith.

The story of “faith the size of a mustard seed” (Luke 17:6) shows that even a tiny bit of faith can work wonders when it is put into action.  The story of the faithful servants who did “what [they] were obliged to do” (Luke 17:10) reminds us that putting the gift of faith into action is essential to the vocation of discipleship.  In the Reading from the Second Letter to Timothy we are encouraged to “stir into flame the gift of God ... with the help of the Holy Spirit that dwells within us” (2 Timothy 1:6, 14).  Those who put their faith into action will be like “the just one” in today’s Reading from Habukkuk, who, “because of his faith, shall live” (Habakkuk 2:4). - Copyright, J.S. Paluch Co.