Faith

Question 1

2 kinds of Faith

Answer 1

Faith in People
Faith in God

Question 2

Faith in People

Answer 2

-Faith is the central part of our daily lives.
-Faith is the most natural way we can relate to other people.
-Without faith it is impossible to live our lives.
-Faith/Paniniwala is the most common way we relate to others.
-We entrust ourselves to others.
-Faith is exercised in our everyday dealings with other people.
-Our faith in people, especially our loved ones, gives us an idea about faith in God.

Question 3

Faith in God

Answer 3

-God reaches out to us first.
-He is the first one to love us.
-Faith is our personal and loving response to God’s self-revelation.
-As Christians, our faith is essentially Trinitarian, for we adhere and commit ourselves to the Triune God.
-Faith is a gift and a task.
-Faith is personal and communal.

Question 4

Doctrine

Answer 4

Faith is believing in God. It is being able to know God in a deeper and more personal way.

Question 5

Moral

Answer 5

Faith is doing God’s will.

Question 6

Worship

Answer 6

Faith is Entrusting our lives to God. Prayer is the main key.

Question 7

Mary our Model of Faith

Answer 7

-Mary is truly an effective inspiration to us because she constantly exercised faith in all the realities of ordinary, daily living, even in family crises.
-Mary perfectly exemplified the common definitions of faith as “full submission of intellect and will” and the “obedience of faith

Question 8

Synthesis

Answer 8

We live out our Christian Faith by committing ourselves to God’s will as Mother Mary did. We respond to God’s call to love and friendship by obeying His Commandments and Beatitudes.