6th Week in Ord. Time, Saturday – 18th February 2023 – Hebrews 11, 1-9; Mark 9,2-13
Faith in Practice
The first reading from the letter to the Hebrews summarizes what has been read over the last few weeks in the book of Genesis. The faith of the key individuals of the “Genesis” stories in the Bible is central to the Jewish and Christian religions. It is upon the faith of Abel, Enoch and Noah that foundations for monotheism have been laid. Those key figures showed that they believed in God, even though they had not seen God as did Adam and Eve. Faith, then, is the ability to take what has been handed down to us and move forward with the assurance that God will fulfill all of what God has promised. In other words, Faith brings the future within the present and makes the invisible seen. Faith is confidence in the trustworthiness of God. It is the conviction that what God says is true and that what He promises will come to pass.
