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FAITH
- A central reality in Filipino life;
- It is an everyday “natural” factor in all our human relationships and daily actions.
FAITH IN HUMAN RELATIONS
• We show our faith when we accept the words of others. (PANINIWALA)
• We show faith when we readily obey the directions of those over us. (PAGSUNOD)
• We show our faith when we entrust our welfare to others, even to strangers . (PAGTITIWALA
It is impossible to live without faith!
Genuine friendships create mutual loving knowledge of each other. In them, we experience something that
liberates us from our own narrowness and opens us to fuller life and love. We realize that friendship freely
offered us by another, also demands our free response. It is a response that is never just one act, but a long
process of growing intimacy with our friend. Inevitably, others among our families and associates are
eventually involved especially God.
“Believing” here means realizing that God is calling us to share His divine life- that is His pagpapakilala to us.
Faith is our personal response as “disciples of Christ” of accepting him “as Lord and Savior.” “It is our ‘Please come in!’
to Christ who stands at the door and knocks (Rv 3:20)” (PCP II 64).
FAITH IN GOD: Our total response to God’s revelation: “It is to know, to love, to follow Christ in the Church
he founded” (PCP II 36)
1. Total and Absolute - Only Faith in God calls for a total and absolute adherence. Christ himself
provides, especially in his Passion, Death and Resurrection, the best example of this total and absolute
commitment to God.
2. Trinitarian - Faith is our friendship with Christ and through Christ with the Father, in their Holy Spirit.
Through Christ’s witness to his Father in his teaching, preaching, miracles, and especially in his
Passion, Death and Resurrection, we come to believe in Christ our Savior, in the Father, and in the
Holy Spirit sent into our hearts.
3. Loving, Maturing and Missionary - Our Christian faith is truly life-giving and mature only through love,
for “the man without love has known nothing of God, for God is love.” (1 Jn 4:8)