Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – 05th October 2025
Today’s readings place before us an ancient question: Why keep believing when it seems God is silent?
The prophet Habakkuk cries: “O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear?”. It is the cry of the person who sees evil, injustice, and suffering, and does not understand why God does not intervene immediately. And God answers: “The righteous shall live by his faith”.
Faith is not an explanation for all of life’s mysteries, but it is a light that helps us go forward even when we cannot see the end of the road.
In today’s Gospel, the apostles ask: “Increase our faith!”. They feel weak, they find it hard to forgive seven times a day, to live according to the Gospel. But Jesus answers in a surprising way: “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you”.
The mustard seed is very small, almost like the tip of a needle. Jesus tells us that what matters is not the quantity of faith, but its authenticity. We do not need to be “giants of faith,” but to place our hearts sincerely in that small trust we have in God.