Understanding the concept of faith and Good works in Catholism

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I am trying to understand the idea of faith and works in Catholism:

is it that your works are begotten from your faith in Christ because of how you have experiences The LORD’s love through Christ our Lord?

or is it as you grow in faith by both action and belief?

please explain since I have looked at a few articles on faith and deeds and I am trying to understand as I am in a thinking phase into Catholicism.
 
I think that both are true. By behaving the way Jesus taught us to, we are showing Him that we have faith in Him. We are opening ourselves to Him and letting Him work through us. Performing deeds like charity, are an exercise of faith, and will also bring you closer to God. The way I see it, we really are “saved by faith alone” as protestants preach, but do you really have faith in God if you aren’t even doing what he taught us to do?
 
thank you for the answer; this has really help develop with the term, “saved and being saved” I hope I am not being rude but are you a catholic christian I am just wondering?
 
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thank you, I have been having cases with on how salvation works, I bought a book on the teachings of the Catholic church and I think that I might become a catholic, God bless you.
 
Faith is a gift of grace. As with any gift we can use it, or abuse it. If we accept the gift and follow God accordingly, it’s meant to lead or develop into other gifts, the most important of which is love. And love, by its nature, works, for the good of others. Love necessarily seeks to share itself.
 
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so faith is divinely inspired? what is the connection to faith and belief?
 
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Faith is as divinely inspired as everything good about us is. Faith allows you to believe without fully understanding. God’s grace helps us have faith, but we can reject His grace and choose not to believe.
 
so say a man, he visits a church and feels something pulling him to the alter, it is his choice to believe or not, is what given faith is?
 
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Well, that sounds like a special instance, but I view faith as a more general gift than that, like our rationality, or our very lives.
 
I’m glad to have helped. God bless you on your journey into Catholicism. Never stop asking questions and seeking for answers, exploring Catholicism will only help you grow deeper in faith.
 
I’ll just try to wrap it around my head though. I possibly might be confused about it all.
 
“but do you really have faith in God if you aren’t even doing what he taught us to do?”

I like that idea, because your faith couldn’t just be on what you believe but how you live on it. thank you. to me, faith is to love and trust in someone even in the worst of circumstances.
 
God shows no partiality to anyone .our God is a God of order, each person differ from another person, his likes dislikes, Faith Hope and Charity likewise, virtues, innumerable other things.Faith Hope and Charity are infused in the soul during Sacrament of Baptism they are the cardinal virtues,they are give to all of us ,in different measure and in a small proportions according to the will of God,it is our duty by his Grace we should strengthen the Holy Spirit in us by Prayers, sacrifices, penance and by keeping holiness,therefore by doing the will of God in each one of our state of life, remember everything is the gift of God,as in James 1:17 Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. 18 In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.all the good works or deeds we do is all by his Grace we are only instruments. Luke 17:9 Do you thank the slave for doing what was commanded? 10 So you also, when you have done all that you were ordered to do, say, ‘We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done!’” Isaiah 26:12 O Lord, you will ordain peace for us,
for indeed, all that we have done, you have done for us.Psalms 115:1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness,So it is God who decides and how he increase the beliefs, Faith by testing and strengthening it accordingly.His Grace is sufficient for me as St Paul said in 2 Corinthians 12:9,9 but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power[a] is made perfect in weakness.” So, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.God Bless

1 Corinthians 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.

Sirach 16:27 He arranged his works in an eternal order, and their dominion for all generations; they neither hunger nor grow weary, and they do not cease from their labors.

Sirach 42:21 He has set in order the splendors of his wisdom; he is from all eternity one and the same. Nothing can be added or taken away, and he needs no one to be his counselor.
 
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I am trying to understand the idea of faith and works in Catholism:

is it that your works are begotten from your faith in Christ because of how you have experiences The LORD’s love through Christ our Lord?

or is it as you grow in faith by both action and belief?

please explain since I have looked at a few articles on faith and deeds and I am trying to understand as I am in a thinking phase into Catholicism."

 
1 Corinthians 13:13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.


Saint Therese of Lisieux, God’s little flower, helps us to re-discover the priceless pearl of faith. She grew into an exemplary model of the theological virtue of faith. Marie-Francoise Therese Martin is well known as Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, O.C.D. Though she died at the tender age of twenty-four, on her brief earthly sojourn she grew to such height of sanctity that the Church canonized her a Saint and designated her Doctor of the Church, a rare distinction among the Communion of Saints.

Therese gives us a beautiful lesson on God’s creation wherein He is glorified by a variety of souls whose single perfection consists in doing His will by being authentically true to self.

Jesus deigned to teach me this mystery. He set before me the book of nature. I understood how all the flowers He has created are beautiful, how the splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not take away the perfume of the little violet or the delightful simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all the flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty, and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

And so it is in the world of souls, Jesus’ garden. He willed to create great souls comparable to lilies and roses, but He has created smaller ones and these must be content to be daises or violets destined to give joy to God’s glances when He looks down at His feet. Perfection consists in doing His Will, in being what He wills us to be.
 
Faith, fide in Latin, means not simple belief. It is the root of the word fidelity, and words such as faithful demonstrate what it means.
It is more akin to loyalty.

How can we have this loyalty, this faith, if nothing comes out of it?
 
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