Faith: The Catholic Faith Handbook For Youth, Third Edition
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- Responding to God's Invitation
- Faith: Personal and Communal
- Faith: A Summary
- Characteristics of Faith
- Proclaiming Our Faith
- An Early Creed
Faith
The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth, Third Edition
Chapter 4
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Faith as Love and Trust
Faith, love, and trust are closely related. If a person trusts us, it is easier to believe that he or she really loves us.
If we trust in another person, it becomes easier to love him or her without holding back.
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Responding to Gods Invitation
We were created with free will. Gods Revelation of himself, particularly in the person of Jesus Christ, is his loving invitation to us to be in a relationship. We can respond with love, trust, faith, and our will.
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Faith: Personal and Communal
Faith is a personal act: we each choose to believe or not to believe. Faith is a communal act: others pass on Gods Revelation to us, and others support our faith. Scripture and Tradition teach that God wants us to be part of a church, a community of believers.
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Faith: A Summary
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Our response to Gods loving invitation to believe in him Giving ourselves completelyheart, mind, and willto a loving relationship with God Believing in and being a part of the Church, the Body of Christ, on earth
Characteristics of Faith
Faith is a grace, a supernatural gift of God. The Holy Spirit helps us to recognize Gods invitation to a relationship with him.
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Characteristics of Faith
Faith is certain. Faith seeks understanding. Faith is not opposed to science.
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Characteristics of Faith
Faith is necessary for salvation. Grace enables faith. Faith is the beginning of eternal life.
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Proclaiming Our Faith
One of the first Christian creeds, found in the Bible, focuses on the death and Resurrection of Jesus. Christians have been proclaiming the Apostles Creed since the Churchs earliest days in Rome.
Everywhere in the world, Catholics recite the Nicene Creed every Sunday at Mass.
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An Early Creed
For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve (1 Corinthians 15:35).
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