. “Mustard seeds” are the size of a distant star.
Question 1: “Why is the ‘mustard seed’ mentioned by Jesus in Mt. 17:14-20 so important?”
Answer: “The ‘mustard seed’ gives us a sense of God’s Perspective.” Here’s the Passage:
“A man came up to Jesus, knelt down before him, and said, ‘Lord, have pity on my son, who is a lunatic and suffers severely; often he falls into fire, and often into water. I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him.”
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Question 2: What did Jesus say and do?
Answer: “Jesus said in reply, ‘O faithless and perverse generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring the boy here to me.’ Jesus rebuked him and the demon came out of him, and from that hour the boy was cured.”
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Question 3: “What did The Disciples do when they saw that Jesus had done what they could not?”
Answer: “Then the disciples approached Jesus in private and said, ‘Why could we not drive it out?'”
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Question 4: “What did Jesus say?
Answer: “He said to them, “Because of your little faith. Amen, I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
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Question 5: “How do we make sense out of that?”
Answer: “Catholics may begin by thinking of the cells in the “mustard seed”. Then, we think of the molecules that make the cells. We think of the atoms that make the molecules. Then, we think of the electrons, protons, and neutrons that make the atoms. We realize that each part, and all of them together, are one “living echo” of a Word of God.
A “mountain-moving” echo from God is enough to “move a mountain”!
When we look at a bright star from earth, how big is it? It is the size of a “mustard seed”.
May our faith grow!
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Simple reasons to be Catholic. catholicfundamentalism.com
A free book of interesting reasons. http://catholicfundamentalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/AllTheWorldIsAStage-Final.pdf
