Faith a

Loving
Response to
Gods
Revelation

A young father has a first

child whom he usually plays
when he comes home from
work. The child was just an 8
months old and starting to
stand up on his feet while
making his first step to walk.
One afternoon the father
played with him by putting
himself on the table while
establishing a distance around
two feet away and asks the
boy to jump towards him.

Immediately the boy

stood up and makes his
first step then runs and
jumps towards his
father who is ready to
catch and hugs him as
the child obey his
command. The child
immediately rushed to
his father without
knowing that what he
did was very dangerous.

When the action was done

both had the feelings of
satisfactions for they both
had done what each had
intended. The components of
trust, obedience and
confidence that they can do it
without dangers were
manifested in their faces.
This is a peculiar relationship
of father and son in the early
stage of childhood
development.

Did you experience

fathers and children
playing each other
like what the story
had told us?
What did you feel
when you see them
playing like that?
What are the basic
components of faith?

Activity:
Trust Walk
Instruction:
Ask students to have his own
partner. Blind fold one partner
and then the other will lead and
vise versa. (3 minutes each)

FAITH AS A LOVING RESPONSE

TO GODS REVELATION

Activity: Trust Walk

1. Choose your own partner.
2. Ask one partner to be the navigator/guide and the other
member to be blindfolded.
3. The leader gives verbal instructions to navigate the blindfolded
partner to avoid obstacles.
4. The guide is solely responsible for his partner s safety. He
should be navigated correctly to avoid obstacles.
5. The guide may lead his partner by touching the elbow of his
partner, by holding his hands, by placing his hands on
shoulders from behind or by whispering verbal directions.
6. Then exchange roles.

Activity: Trust Walk

Let us reflect and share upon your

experiences

Activity: Trust Walk

1. What did you learn about walking

blind?

Activity: Trust Walk

2. Why is trust in your partner

important?

Activity: Trust Walk

3. How did you feel when you and

your teammate successfully
trusted each other?

Activity: Trust Walk

4. What did you learn from this activity in

relation to our day to day lives?

Activity: Trust Walk

Guide

learns about the challenge and responsibility of

caring for another individuals well being

Activity: Trust Walk

Blindfolded
learns to trust and rely on another person

Activity: Trust Walk

Lessons:
Teamwork
Trust

Imagine the world without faith. What kind of

a world do we have?

Why is faith necessary in our day to day life?

Give reasons and cite concrete examples.

Do you have faith in your house helpers who

prepare your meals daily?

Do you have faith in our school bus drivers to

bring you safely to Claret School?

Do you have faith in your teachers in school that

they will teach you the truth?

Faith is a natural
human act, needed to
live a human life.

We believe the food we eat will

not poison us.
We trust that the buildings we
enter will not fall down.
We have faith in other people like
our parents, etc

Without such human faith,

Human life would be impossible

This human faith involves:

1. Accepting the words of others

2. Obey the directions of those over us.
3. Entrust ourselves and our welfare to others:
doctors, etc

Faith is our loving knowledge

the way we know our parents,
Friends, etc.

FAITH AS A LOVING RESPONSE

TO GODS REVELATION

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WHAT WE BELIEVE IN

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Faith is an attitude of
reverence for whole of
creation and our part in it. For
human life, human
relationships, coupled with an
attitude of faith will help us
open our eyes to see God who
call s us from the depth of our
experience.

FAITH THAT IS ACTIVE. A FAITH

THAT IS BELIVEING, TRUSTING AND
DOING FAITH, WORKING ITSELF
INTO DAILY LIFE.

Faith as believing is a loving

knowledge not drawn from
direct evidence of the senses
or mind nor from scientific
experiment. It is an
acknowledgement tat
someone, something is true
because God has revealed it.
He communicated it to us.

Faith as doing is acting in

obedience to Gods will. It the
internal and external
manifestation of what we know,
our convictions. Internal
disposition manifested in our
external behavior.
Faith as trusting/ worshipping is
the recognition of our duty as
creatures to worship God in spirit
and in truth.

This trust is expressed clearly in the

Churchs liturgical worship or actions
and manifested as well in ones deeds.
Authentic Christian brings about a way
of life that embraces a conviction of the
Gospel truths the active commitment
to obey Gods holy will and the personal
trust and self-offering of Christian
worship. A HEARTFELT
CONVERSATION WITH GOD.

Characteristics of Christian Faith:

1.Total and Absolute
2.Trinitarian
3.Loving, maturing and missionary
4.Informed and communitarian
5.Inculturated

1. TOTAL AND ABSOLUTE

Faith in God calls for a total adherence

to God

1. TOTAL AND ABSOLUTE

Difference
between
believing
in
another human person and believing
in God:
Believing in human person could be
wrong or fails to be faithful
Believing in God who
deceive nor be deceived

cannot

2. TRINITARIAN

Faith is our adherence to the Triune

God revealed through Jesus Christ
A dimension/core value of the Claretian
Spirituality

3. LOVING. MATURING AND MISSIONARY

Without love, we know nothing of God

for God is love.

4. INFORMED AND COMMUNITARIAN

Believing Jesus words ; accepting his

teachings and trusting that He has
the words of eternal life
Our response in faith is an act taking
place within the same community, the
Church

5. INCULTURATED

The Catholic Faith is never separated

from the typical Filipino faith in
human family and friends.

Paradoxical Aspects of Faith

1.Certain, Yet Obscure
2. Free, Yet morally obliging
3. Reasonable, Yet beyond
Natural Reason
4. An Act, yet a process
5. A gift, Yet our doing
6. Personal, yet Ecclesia