Steps In Building Commerical Building

Review of the 2nd meeting (18 October)

We were again 22 young people + the speaker of the evening, Father Xavier Manzano. We were still amazed by the clarity of his teaching, which focused on the relationship between Revelation and faith. "

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believe that ... believe ... believe in ... 3 ways to "believe". They rely increasingly on rational grounds, but the latter is essentially different, because it implies "plus" a voluntary act of trust, and it is entering the reality of its object, it is essentially a "relationship" entered a "communion" with its object (God). When I think "in God," I operate a "movement": I reach and penetrate the reality of what it is, I am introduced by him "in Him" as in a living environment, I am invited by Him to live in living communion with Him, I am invited to a relationship that is love, I participate in "his" vision of reality (wisdom). Nothing to see, then, with a belief only intellectual.

It is necessary to ask the very possibility of speaking of "God", that man is capable by the mere light of reason to arrive at the certainty of its existence as the beginning and end of all things (what the Church says the Vatican Council, 1870).

But a gulf separates the human mind, limited, of the infinite God, if only by the light my reason I know it exists as the beginning and end of everything, I do not know "who" is. why he must be "revealed" in history (Aristotle was unfortunate ...) and must (in my life) I am helped by a gift of divine grace: the virtue of faith , then called "theological" because it has God as the cause. Faith is always a gift of God, a gift that is received as such and not as a personal acquisition.

We must therefore distinguish between
"fides quae" faith in what God has revealed himself [History hello next chapter, on November 1 ...] .
"qua fides" faith as a human act of accession intelligent and voluntary this revelation and to God himself.

These two dimensions of faith involves a pure gift of God:
- in his love, it pleased God to reveal to men ... says the Second Vatican Council.
- the participation of our intelligence and our will is complete: the gift of God's cause and support - but never substitute for - the dimension of intelligence and free reasonable confidence, to "jump" for membership staff, what the act of faith.

The act of "faith" (Christian) someone is always a mysterious reality that escapes us entirely: we can help in a "discretionary" (prepare, in short, the ground ...) but we are never the cause.

That may stimulate both our desire to evangelize ... and our prayer for those for whom we hope this wonderful gift of "faith". the "big gun" of prayer ...