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Re: Saturday of the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time

comets — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:04:09 -0000

I may have went off the path on this one. What I meant to say (or should have meant to say) is that if we look at all that we as a people have been able to do on our own (although we may not have been on our own since we are a people of faith) then we should be able to believe that we can do much more (even move mountains) if God so commands us to or allows us to. It may even have been through our faith that we have been able to do the things that we have done. Didn't mean to indicate that we can do these things on our own or that they compare to what God can do.
But I got a response out of you so I know that you read my post. :>)

Re: Saturday of the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time

fatherpat — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:04:14 -0000

I appreciate your many comments, but I have to say, you are totally missing the point on this one. Moving the mountain is not about us, never ever ever about us, not us individually and not us collectively. Moving the mountain is about faith in the One who can do anything he wills, faith in God. These are all inspiring examples of human progress, but they are nothing compared to what God can do, if our faith would be even as tiny as a mustard seed.

Re: Saturday of the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time

comets — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:00:24 -0000

So we don't think that we can move mountains?
There have been plenty of examples in US history where we (collectively) moved mountains.
In WWII, Germany had taken France and a number of other countries. It looked like Great Britain would fall. Roosevelt had a hard time getting the congress to go along with loaning arms to Britain. Who wants to load to someone who will probably not be able to pay you back? Gernany was a mountain that was moved.
In the 1980s, the Soviet Union was a mountain of a country. Many people did not like Reagan's tough talk with "the evil empire". They thought it was an unmovable mountain.
In the time of Lincoln, many people thought that the institution of slavery was a mountain that could not be moved. They sought to keep slavery from expanding, but didn't think that they could end it where it existed. Abolitionists kept fighting and moved that mountain.
Roe vs Wade as the Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion is a mountain. Many think that this mountain can not be moved. But how many thought that any of the other mountains that this country has faced would have been moved?