Our cure is faith

Encourage believers to realize the value of the faith they have accepted. Imagine you are shopping, and suddenly you are stopped by a reporter with a microphone and a camera and asks you, “Are you a believer?” “So what does faith mean to you?” “If you do not believe that I am I, you will die in your sins” (John 8:21).

In the Gospels, we witness the conversation of the Pharisees with Jesus. Jesus tells them that he leaves and that where he goes, they cannot come. (cf. John 8:21). It seems as if they are wanted to prevent salvation from being achieved. But Jesus also tells them why they can’t come where he goes on. The reason is their sin, in which they die if? If they don’t believe it. And what they have in the first place do you like to believe? That he is God. Christ tells them, “If you do not believe that I Am, you will die in your sins ”(John 8:21). Let’s remember his name God to Moses on Mount Horeb. When Moses asks for the name of God, who comes to him speaks in a burning creek. God introduces himself to him: “I am who I am” (Ex 3:14). “Yes I am, ” says God; “I am,” says Jesus. Christ wants to tell the Pharisees that if they will not believe that he is the same God who appeared to Moses. If they don’t believe in this, they will die in their sins, and they will die forever.

We know the thinking of the Pharisees very well. And in doing so, they really do to believe that some “man” – a Jew is God, that he is the long-awaited one and the Messiah proclaimed by the prophets meant a complete turn, a turn not of 180 degrees, but 360 degrees. We could say that this is something impossible. Impossible, and yet Jesus calls them to believe in him as in God. They brought us this faith millennia ago st. Cyril and Methods and have been preserved to this day thanks to God. They handed it over to us, our parents, grandparents. We can say that it is normal for us that Jesus is God, and once again, Jesus is God. It is normal. But how much am I alive? In a few minutes, there will be the living God, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of James, the God – Christ is here on the altar. Let’s not stay that this is normal; let’s move on, let’s realize that we believe in that God, that we pray to that God, that we come to that God, and even more, that we receive that God in the Eucharist. Faith in such a God cannot remain
dead – normal but leads to a complete turnaround to the one requested from Pharisees. And I, you, all of us, are called to this faith. We are in today’s first reading. They heard of the serpents that bit the Israelites in the wilderness because they murmured against God. On the intercession, Moses God teaches him to make a copper serpent when the bite is looked at erect snake heals. To such a serpent, we can also compare the faith to which Christ calls the Pharisees and to whom he calls us. It is faith that heals. Heal us themselves, heals our relationships, heals our attitudes, opinions, heals our thinking. It’s a faith that is to leave in us a footprint of God, which is to make us, our lives, “Copper snakes” on which, when we sin, the sick people around us look, they heal.
If, after this Holy Mass, a reporter with a microphone and a camera was waiting for us in front of the church, and he would ask us what faith means to us, one of our answers could be that faith is a cure for us and, through us, a cure for others.