What is Faith? (And Hi)

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What is faith?
How do we receive it?
What does Hebrews 12 mean when St Paul says “Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith”?

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P.S. Hello. I just joined and didnt see a place to introduce myself.
 
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The Vatican actually has many resources available online…

To answer your question: “Faith is first of all a personal adherence of man to God. At the same time, and inseparably, it is a free assent to the whole truth that God has revealed. As personal adherence to God and assent to his truth, Christian faith differs from our faith in any human person. It is right and just to entrust oneself wholly to God and to believe absolutely what he says. It would be futile and false to place such faith in a creature.” -Catechism of the Catholic Church

Here’s the link: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s1c3a1.htm

Pax Christi!
 
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MysticMonist said:
What is faith?
How do we receive it?
What does Hebrews 12 mean when St Paul says “Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith”?

Thanks!

P.S. Hello. I just joined and didnt see a place to introduce myself.
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Catechism
153 When St. Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, Jesus declared to him that this revelation did not come “from flesh and blood”, but from “my Father who is in heaven”. 24 Faith is a gift of God, a supernatural virtue infused by him. “Before this faith can be exercised, man must have the grace of God to move and assist him; he must have the interior helps of the Holy Spirit, who moves the heart and converts it to God, who opens the eyes of the mind and ‘makes it easy for all to accept and believe the truth.’” 25

24 Mt 16:17; cf. Gal 1:15; Mt 11:25.
25 DV 5; cf. DS 377; 3010.
DS Denzinger-Schonmetzer, Enchiridion Symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum (1965)
DV Dei Verbum
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Thanks, I’m always impressed by the catechism, one of these days I’ll have to read it.

I’ve been thinking more about faith and talked about it on another thread here too. It does seem faith, grace and illumination are all linked and happen at the same time. They also seem to always be available but it is up to us to turn towards or away from it.

This turning towards faith and indeed God Himself is comforting and experentially true versus waiting or expecting some magical spark that doesn’t come. This waiting and doubting has been agonizing.

It’s realky comforting to embrace the faith I do have, that I choose to have rather than waiting for someone else’s version of it.
 
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