This past Sunday, while attending Adult Forum prior to Mass, the topic of Faith and Understanding was discussed. This discussion gave me something to think about.
Taken from The Catechism of The Catholic Church:
157 Faith is certain.
It is more certain than all human knowledge because it is founded on the very word of God who cannot lie. To be sure, revealed truths can seem obscure to human reason and experience, but “the certainty that the divine light gives is greater than that which the light of natural reason gives.”31 “Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.”32
For me, I find that I often confuse Faith with belief. As defined within the Modern Catholic Dictionary:
Faith, Act of:
The assent of the mind to what God has revealed. An act of supernatural faith requires divine grace
Belief:
The acceptance of something as true on a trustworthy person’s word.
Belief emphasizes the act of the will, which disposes one to believe, where faith is rather the act of the mind, which assents to what is revealed Truth.
What I take from this is, if one accepts God, one also accepts the revealed truths of God and through the gift/grace of Faith, one will believe as there is no greater or one more trustworthy than God who cannot lie. Therefor I pray for growth in the infused virtue of faith.
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