Humility to persevere in faith

 

 And when they returned home, the envoys found the servant well.

All the miracles that Jesus performed came from a heart full of love and mercy; he never performed a miracle to harm anyone. Nor did He perform a miracle for His own usefulness. We see him starving and not turning stones into bread, thirsty and asking a Samaritan woman for a drink at Jacob's well7. And when Herod demands that he perform a feat, he keeps silent, knowing that this man could set him free.... The purpose of the miracles is for the good of those who come to Him, so that they may believe that You have sent Me. The corporal works of mercy are transformed into the greater good of souls. Therefore, that evening, when the Centurion was able to contemplate his servant healthy, the miracle united him more closely to Jesus. We must suppose that after Pentecost he was one of those first Gentiles who received Baptism, and he would be faithful to the Master until the end of his days.

True faith unites us to Jesus Christ the Redeemer and to his power over all creatures, and gives us a security and a firmness that are above all human circumstances, above any event that may occur. But to have this faith we need the humility of this Centurion: to know that we are nothing before Jesus; never to distrust his help, even if at times it takes some time to arrive or comes in a different way from what we expected.

St. Augustine affirmed that all the gifts of God can be reduced to this: "To receive the faith and to persevere in it until the last moment of life ". The humility of knowing that we can betray the faith we have received, that we are capable of separating ourselves from the Master, will help us never to leave our daily contact with Him, and those means of formation that teach us to know God better and provide us with the arguments we need to make Him known. The real obstacle to persevering in faith is pride. God resists the proud, and gives his grace to the humble. This is why we must ask for humility very often.

In Our Lady we find this profound union between faith and humility. Her cousin Elizabeth will greet her, moved by the Holy Spirit, with these words: Blessed, blessed are you, because you have believed.... And the Holy Spirit will put in the mouth of the Virgin Mother: "Immense happiness fills my soul. And all generations will call me blessed..... But the ultimate reason is nothing mine, but that God has set his eyes on the humility of his handmaid, He has opened my heart and filled it with graces... Let us go to her so that she may teach us to grow in this virtue of humility, where faith has its firm foundations. "The Handmaid of the Lord is today the Queen of the Universe. He who humbles himself will be exalted (Mt 23:12). May we know how to place ourselves unconditionally at the service of God and we will be raised to an incredible height; we will participate in the intimate life of God, we will be like gods, but by the proper way: that of humility and docility to the will of our God and Lord ".



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