By Gayle Somers, Catholic Exchange - This Sunday, the apostles ask Jesus to increase their faith. More faith sounds like a reasonable request. Jesus doesn’t think so. Why?... What prompted the apostles to ask Jesus to increase their faith in this reading? In the verses preceding ours, Jesus had been talking about forgiveness: “Take heed to yourselves, if your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him; and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, and says, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him” ....