Increase Our Faith
Increase Our Faith
Oh! What marvels faith can work among peoples!
Many say that those people are superstitious and their faith is not sound. Instead, I say that their faith is very sound and there, more than any other place, we see it proven by extraordinary events. They believe with simplicity, and this is one of the wisest qualities of a true believer. They are uneducated, but posses within themselves good reason for their beliefs. God has infused it in them. They also are willing to be instructed. No, the faith of these people is not to be despised. They may not be able to express the reason for their faith, nor can they always defend it, but these reasons which they possess are deeply felt in their hearts, as though they had studied much. The reason for this faith is the heart’s highest good; the heart is judge of what is for its benefit, not the intellect. Everyone has a heart, the learned and the ignorant.
How many uneducated souls with pure hearts have raised themselves to God in blessed contemplation. Thus, even the mysteries that are beyond science and the mind were not superior to the vastness of their hearts. No, the mind does not comprehend the mysteries of faith, but, because they are mysteries of love, the heart of one who has the gift of faith feels, rather than understands them. Yes, the Trinity, the Incarnation, and the Eucharist are mysteries of a God who makes himself for us father, brother, victim, and food. They are proof of an infinite love; the heart perceives the truth because it needs to be infinitely loved. Oh, faith, oh, holy religion, how much you have benefited humanity! Appearing in the night of ignorance, you have crushed error and have assured reason and truth positions they will never lose. You will live for ever no matter how embattled, and error will never be a part of you. When error assails us, we will return to you and find truth under your beautiful mantle.
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini
Oh! What marvels faith can work among peoples!
Many say that those people are superstitious and their faith is not sound. Instead, I say that their faith is very sound and there, more than any other place, we see it proven by extraordinary events. They believe with simplicity, and this is one of the wisest qualities of a true believer. They are uneducated, but posses within themselves good reason for their beliefs. God has infused it in them. They also are willing to be instructed. No, the faith of these people is not to be despised. They may not be able to express the reason for their faith, nor can they always defend it, but these reasons which they possess are deeply felt in their hearts, as though they had studied much. The reason for this faith is the heart’s highest good; the heart is judge of what is for its benefit, not the intellect. Everyone has a heart, the learned and the ignorant.
How many uneducated souls with pure hearts have raised themselves to God in blessed contemplation. Thus, even the mysteries that are beyond science and the mind were not superior to the vastness of their hearts. No, the mind does not comprehend the mysteries of faith, but, because they are mysteries of love, the heart of one who has the gift of faith feels, rather than understands them. Yes, the Trinity, the Incarnation, and the Eucharist are mysteries of a God who makes himself for us father, brother, victim, and food. They are proof of an infinite love; the heart perceives the truth because it needs to be infinitely loved. Oh, faith, oh, holy religion, how much you have benefited humanity! Appearing in the night of ignorance, you have crushed error and have assured reason and truth positions they will never lose. You will live for ever no matter how embattled, and error will never be a part of you. When error assails us, we will return to you and find truth under your beautiful mantle.
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini
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