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SUMMARY:Easter Weekday
DESCRIPTION:EVERYTHING IS OBTAINABLE\nFOR SOMEONE WHO PRAYS\nFrom “The Commendation of Faith” by Baldwin of Forde6\n◊◊◊\nThe Lord says to his disciples: ‘Truly\, truly\, I tell you\, if you ask anything of\nthe Father in my name he will give it to you.’ And in the gospel of Mark:\n‘Whatever you ask when you pray\, believe that you will receive them and they\nwill come to you.’ In the gospel of Matthew: ‘If two of you on earth agree about\nanything\, whatever you ask will be given you by my Father who is in heaven.’ \nFrom these passages\, note that everything is obtainable for someone who\nprays\, just as it is said that everything is possible for someone who believes.\nFaith and prayer are recognized to have similar power\, and one helps the other\nin turn… The Lord shows the disciples the power of faith and at once adds the\npower of prayer\, thereby showing that it is conjoined to [faith] by a kind of\nsimilarity: ‘Have faith in God. Truly I tell you: whoever says to this mountain\,\n“Get up and throw yourself into the sea”\, and does not doubt in his heart\, but\nbelieves that what he said will be done\, will be done for him’… Consider from\nthese words how powerful faith is in everything that is said without any doubt\nthat it will be done\, and\, equally\, how powerful prayer is in everything that is\nasked for in the faith that it will come to pass… \nBut what if someone says: ‘Who can say to this mountain without any\ndoubt: “Get up\, and throw yourself into the sea”? Does it not seem just as\nimpossible not to doubt this as actually to do it? But if these two things – doing it\nand not doubting it – are not possible for us\, but only for divine power\, then it\ncan seem unworthy of God to make such a promise. How can he promise that a\nmountain will be moved by a simple utterance\, provided we have said it without\nany doubt\, when that very doubt\, so far as it is in our power\, is as immovably\nfixed in our heart as this mountain is in its place?’… \nFor although the Lord promises us his help in all things\, and although he\nsays that not a hair of our head shall perish and thereby says that he will make us\nsecure\, who is there who is firm in faith at all times and secure in all places? Who\ncan always stand by himself? Who does not sometimes waver? Who never\ndoubts? Thus it follows that we\, who have only a little faith\, need to have our\nfaith increased and are always bound to offer to God our confession of faith and\nto beg him unceasingly to help our unbelief\, saying: ‘Lord\, I believe: help my\nunbelief.’… He helps our weakness when he gives us the capacity to be capable of\nlittle. He helps our unbelief when he makes us believe that we believe little…\nThis is a wonderful dispensation of God by which he allows those he has chosen\nto fall for a time so that they may rise up all the stronger\, so that they may be\nmore cautious\, so that they trust less in themselves\, so that they recognize their\nweakness more perfectly\, so that they cling to God more firmly\, so that they hold\nhis grace\, without which they can do nothing…. \n6 Baldwin of Forde. The Commendation of Faith. CF 59. Trans. Jane Patricia Freeland\nand David N. Bell. Kalamazoo\, MI: Cistercian Publications\, 2000. 145-147\,151-152\, 155
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