Third Sunday after the Epiphany 2019

Today Our Lord teaches us about the importance of faith and prayer and the connection between the two.  The two always go together.  Just like Frank Sinatra taught us with “Love and Marriage”—you can’t have one without the other.  Both the leper and the centurion present us with the image of faith and prayer.  Both believe.  Both confes that God alone can answer prayer.  Through them we see that it’s faith that motivates us to pray, to reache out to the One it knows can and does answer all prayers.  And it’s faith that accepts the answer, regardless of what it is.  So, we see that it is very important to pray for the one thing we truly need, that is, faith to accept the answer God gives us when we pray.  And when we pray for the thing that we need the most, the thing that guarantees our entrance into heaven because it receives all that Christ has done for us, God always answers that with a yes.

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