Gratitude and faith move together as we unpack Luke 17, Naaman’s healing, and why the Eucharist is a weekly school of thanksgiving. We share how simple obedience “on the way” opens space for healing, and we offer practical ways to practice daily gratitude that deepens belief.

• Gratitude completes the miracle in Luke 17
• Naaman’s pride, simple obedience, and renewal
• The scandal of simplicity in mercy and penance
• Healing “on the way” and obedience before evidence
• Eucharist as thanksgiving and weekly gratitude practice
• St Paul’s joy in chains and unchained Word of God
• Daily examen and concrete habits of thankfulness
• Why nine didn’t return and the risk of forgetting the giver
• Faith and gratitude as inseparable dispositions

We explore how gratitude and faith form a living cycle that turns requests into worship and blessings into a life of return. Naaman, the healed Samaritan, and Paul in chains reveal why thanksgiving completes the miracle and matures trust.

• Naaman’s pride confronted by simple obedience
• Healing of the ten lepers and one returning
• Gratitude completing the miracle into salvation
• Faith, gratitude, and worship as a single movement
• Paul’s chains contrasted with an unchained word
• Eucharist as thanksgiving and a school of memory
• Practical call to return with thanks after answers
• Gratitude turning fear into trust and pain into purpose

We press into the fear that our faith is too small and find freedom in trusting a faithful God. From pride’s demand for proof to the slow work of waiting, we explore how daily, ordinary yeses shape courage, heal wounds, and move real mountains.

• faith measured by trust, not size
• risk and reason held together in belief
• pride’s need for control versus surrender
• living on God’s terms and timing
• exercising faith through daily prayer and forgiveness
• perseverance stories that witness to God’s fidelity
• waiting as the school of trust
• Jesus’ confidence in us and the gift of the Eucharist
• bringing doubts and fears as mustard seeds

When you come forward to receive Jesus in the Eucharist, bring your mustard seed. Bring your doubts, bring your fears, your little faith, place it into his hands, and let him grow it.