Lesson 16, 17: Faith Flashcards
1
Q
How can a finite being respond to an infinite being?
A
God invites us to eternal friendship
Man responds through God (word & action goes hand in hand)
2
Q
God bestows a gift to a man through
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Faith
3
Q
infused by God in the soul together with sanctifying grace.
Council of Trent
A
Faith
4
Q
grace from God
A
Faith
5
Q
it is God who makes the first move in eternal friendship
A
Faith as grace
6
Q
He moves the heart and the mind that we may be ready to receive
him and comprehend him in his divine truths
A
Faith as grace
7
Q
Faith increases in the measure that
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sanctifying grace increases
8
Q
it is the interior grace, which dwells in the soul and transforms it,
making it holy.
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Sanctifying grace
9
Q
It gives the supernatural life.
A
Sanctifying grace
10
Q
the ordinary way we receive sanctifying grace is through the
sacraments.
A
Sanctifying grace
11
Q
capacity to recognize God
The permanent disposition to remain in communion with God.
A
Sanctifying grace
12
Q
is a supernatural push or encouragement.
it doesn’t live in the soul but acts on the soul from the outside
A
Actual grace
13
Q
God’s intervention in the process of our justification.
A
Actual grace
14
Q
It is a gift because
A
“No one can come to me,” Jesus said, “unless the
Father who sent me draws him” (Jn 6:44) (CFC 149)
15
Q
Our Christian Faith, then, is not merely of
A
Our own doing
16
Q
It depends upon God for two things :
A
God’s free gift of revealing himself throughout salvation history
for the grace of the holy spirit’s interior illumination and inspiration
which “gives to all joy in assenting to the truth and believing in it”
(CCC 149)
17
Q
God’s “gift” of faith demands our
A
free cooperation with others
18
Q
Faith is also our
A
active response to be witnesses to Christ and the
gospel given to us by others.
19
Q
This active response is motivated and
inspired by
A
the prayer and worship we share with our fellow members
of Christ’s Church (CCC 150).
20
Q
By itself, Faith does not increase by ______.
Nevertheless, through repeated acts of _____
A
repetition of acts
faith
21
Q
One acquires a natural habit of
A
removing the obstacles to the
growth of faith
22
Q
in the state of grace, One merits an increase in
A
sanctifying grace
and, on this account, an increase in the accompanying virtue of
faith
23
Q
among the means to make faith grow
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- asking God to increase it, The apostles begged the Lord :
“Increase our faith” (Lk. 17:5) - Reading thereceiving instruction on the truths of faith
- Practicing it in one’s words and life
- doing apostolate sacred Scriptures
24
Q
graced persons are more inclined to reach their ultimate goal of
friendship with God because
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Faith is a supernatural virtue
25
it is infused to us spiritually and reaching the ultimate goal is more
possible with good habits
Faith is a supernatural virtue
26
knowing that faith is entirely given, not because we deserve it but
because of
God‘s generosity, challenges us to seek to know more
how precious this gift is, to discover the blessings that come our way
through this gift
27
faith, as a gift from God, is ____
faith is _____ in us.
faith requires ________
faith requires ______
Grace
infused
human cooperation
action
28
God’s “gift” of faith demands
our
| free cooperation with others
29
Only faith in God calls for a total and absolute adherence.
TOTAL AND ABSOLUTE
30
Christ himself provides the best example of
| total and absolute commitment to God by his Passion, Death and Resurrection.
TOTAL AND ABSOLUTE
31
Faith that is a personal conviction and belief in God our Father, revealed by Jesus Christ, His own divine Son- made-man, and their presence to us through the Holy Spirit in the Church.
TRINITARIAN
32
Faith that is not only a belief in Christ’s Word and Kingdom but also bearing witness and proclaiming it.
LOVING, MATURING, MISSIONARY
33
Faith that is believing in Christ’s words transmitted through Sacred Scriptures and Tradition, accepting his teachings and believing that he has the words of eternal life. (CFC, 126)
INFORMED AND COMMUNITARIAN
34
Faith that is lived in daily relationships like family, friends, classmates, etc. (CFC, 127)
INCULTURATED
35
Because faith is grounded
| on an unshakeable foundation — on God revealing himself in convincing signs.
CERTAIN
36
Faith can never originate from some logical deduction, from ourselves our other limited men or women.
CERTAIN
37
God is more than what we can even fully comprehend.
OBSCURE
38
But “we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7) God’s Spirit helps human reason understand truths that are above the capacity of human reason.
OBSCURE
39
Faith is ______ yet ______
CERTAIN; OBSCURE
40
Faith is ______ yet __________
FREE; MORALLY OBLIGING.
41
Because we are invited to faith and conversion but not coerced (CCC 160).
FREE
42
No one, not even God, forces us to believe.
FREE
43
Because it is necessary for our salvation.
MORALLY OBLIGING
44
Without faith, it is impossible to please God and to attain fellowship with Him (CCC 161).
MORALLY OBLIGING
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Without faith, it is impossible to please God and to attain fellowship with Him (CCC 161).
MORALLY OBLIGING
46
God can be known through human reason (i.e. 5 proofs by Aquinas).
REASONABLE
47
Only rational creatures can believe.
REASONABLE
48
There is absolute necessity for grace because faith is an act of the will moved by God’s grace (Aquinas).
BEYOND NATURAL REASON
49
There is absolute necessity for grace because faith is an act of the will moved by God’s grace (Aquinas).
BEYOND NATURAL REASON
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Faith is _____ yet ________.
REASONABLE; BEYOND NATURAL REASON
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Faith is AN _____ yet A PROCESS of _____.
ACT; PERSEVERANCE
52
A personal decision for
Christ.
YES to God.
Act
53
But the personal decision for Christ is a life-long (perhaps fluctuating) process; an enduring way of life within the Christian community.
Process
54
Faith is A _____ yet Our ____.
GIFT; DOING
55
A grace of God.
| “No one can say Jesus is Lord, except in the Holy Spirit.” (1 Cor. 12:3)
Gift
56
Demands our free cooperation with others.
Our doing
57
Involves hearing, discerning God in our lives, and witnessing.
Our doing
58
Faith is ______ yet _______.
PERSONAL; ECCLESIAL
59
A private response.
| But faith is not individualistic (for ourselves alone).
Personal
60
Within our Christian family.
ECCLESIAL
61
God reveals Himself in terms of community. The Church, though persecuted, remains through the test of time.
ECCLESIAL
62
In the
person of Christ as
“my Lord and my
God.” (John 20:28)
Believing
63
Trust that grows through prayer and worship; a personal heartfelt conversation.
Entrusting / Worshipping
64
A commitment, for only those who do the will of the Father in Heaven will enter the Kingdom. (Matthew 7:21)
Doing
65
Three dimensions of Faith
Believing
Entrusting
Doing
66
Believing
Mind
67
Doing
Will
68
Trusting
Heart
69
What should we believe in?
Mind
70
What must we do on account of what we believe in?
Will
71
If we would believe and do what our belief requires us to, what can we hope for?
Heart
72
The overflowing love of God and the promise with him which we constantly make ourselves aware of every time we commune with him in prayer.
Entrusting
73
Commit ourselves to obey God’s will for us.
Will
74
God, not an abstract idea but a person who calls us to enter into a relationship with Him.
Believing
75
DOCTRINE
Believing
76
MORALITY
Morality
77
WORSHIP
Worship
78
believes the right things, does what is good, but hardly prays and goes to Church.
Ideological activism
79
believes the right things, always goes to Church but lives a questionable Christian life.
Pious dogmatism
80
Does good to others, goes to Church quite often, but does not really know what he/she believes in.

Idealistic dogmatism
81
Placing our faith in _____ and in his teachings is a great challenge.
Jesus
82
A concept of the world according to which the latter is self-explanatory, without any need for recourse to God, who thus becomes superfluous and an encumbrance.
Secularism
83
This sort of secularism, in order to recognize the power of man, therefore ends up by doing without God and even by denying Him.
Secularism
84
We are daily faced, under the most diverse forms, with a consumer society, the pursuit of pleasure set up as the supreme value, a desire for power and domination, and discrimination of every kind: the inhuman tendencies of this "humanism.“
Secularism
85
The acquisition of worldly goods can lead men to greed, to the unrelenting desire for more, to the pursuit of greater personal power.
Materialism
86
An object already owned but now superseded by something better is discarded, with no thought of its possible lasting value in itself, nor of some other human being who is poorer.
Throw-Away Culture
87
This super-development, which consists in an excessive availability of every kind of material goods for the benefit of certain social groups, easily makes people slaves of "possession" and of immediate gratification, with no other horizon than the multiplication or continual replacement of the things already owned with others still better.
Consumerism
88
only bloats the heart. It can offer occasional and passing pleasures, but not joy.
Consumerism
89
can prove our downfall, for when we are obsessed with our own pleasure, we end up being all too concerned about ourselves and our rights, and we feel a desperate need for free time to enjoy ourselves.
Hedonism and Consumerism
90
These lead us to understanding the challenges/obstacles to faith
1. First is the simple denial that God exists, or that Jesus Christ is Lord, the only begotten Son. “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God’ ” (Ps 14:1). CFC 176
2. There is the pragmatic, secularistic mentality that measures all human success in terms of “economic and social emancipation.” Gaudium et Spes 20
3. Poverty and injustice among us.
4. The “natural” self-centeredness or pride that tempts everyone to see any dependence on God as against human freedom and self-fulfillment.
91
In #4, From this attitude arises
current skepticism,
| doubts and incredulity.
92
#4: This mind-set is based on a false image:
1) God as some authoritarian Judge, arbitrarily imposing His will on us;
2) our freedom as totally independent of God.
93
The liturgy is not seen as the source and apex of the Church’s life. Rather it is seen as
one department of life, without an intimate connection with social, economic and political life.
94
If we exist, it is because
God has created us through love, and through love continues to hold us in existence
95
We cannot live fully according to truth
| unless
we freely acknowledge that love
| and entrust ourselves to our Creator. Gaudium et Spes, 19
96
Genuine Christian Faith, in its ethical-prophetic role, fosters
basic human personal and social values.
97
Genuine Christian Faith shapes the lifestyle of Christians according to
Gospel priorities and authentic human responsibility and justice.
98
Besides the material help thus offered, the deeper, more lasting contribution may well be
in showing “good example” by putting the faith into practice. CFC 190
99
We cannot worship God in our churches and shrines, and then
disregard Him in the daily business of life. (PCP II 168)
100
God gives us the gift of faith freely because
He loves us
101
It is unlikely any other material gift. Material gifts may fade or be destroyed in time.
But FAITH becomes deeper and stronger with
constant action
102
Faith requires action
103
When grace is lost, faith becomes devoid of its end, since it no longer leads
to the love of God
104
It is then called “_______” or “deformed faith,” because faith, which “_______,” is now deprived of its proper function.
formless faith; arouses hope and works through love
105
So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is ______.
dead
106
Believing in the God revealed by Jesus
Christian Faith
