"Peter shows that miracles are not necessary for faith; they do not strengthen it. He walks on the lake as no one else has ever done, and yet he already doubts. He experiences a miracle, yet his faith is shaken: Lord, I am sinking! Peter doubts and sinks; he sinks and believes: Lord, save me! Doubt, faith, cry. I like this fisherman, whom I thank, a man of water and then of rock, for his very human oscillation between great faith, which challenges the storm, and small faith. And it is precisely there that Jesus reaches us, at the centre of our lack of faith. He reaches us and does not point the finger at our doubts, but extends his hand to grasp us. In the days of little faith, the strong hand that God has never ceased to extend arrives. And the cry of fear becomes an embrace between man and his God."
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Fr. q:it:Ermes Ronchi, Una mano tesa sull'abisso del dubbio, avvenire.it, 7 August 2008.
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