WHAT WE BELIEVE
When we pray or recite the Creed, we are reminded that Catholicism is a revealed religion. God is the author of our faith. All that we are expected to believe is summed up in the revelation of Jesus Christ. God has spoken all that is necessary for our Salvation in Jesus, the Word made flesh. God also gives us the gift of faith that enables us to respond, accept and live out the implications of Divine Revelation.
Various aspects of OUR FAITH PROFESSED, as outlined in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) can be explored below.
My Soul is Yearning for You, My God (CCC 27-43)
The Human Quest for God To be human is to search for God. Throughout history, to the present moment, religious beliefs and practices express the human search for God. As creatures made in God’s image and likeness, each one of us has been given a mind to search for the truth and a heart that longs...
God Comes to Meet Us (CCC 50-67)
God Reveals a Plan of Loving Goodness By natural reason, we can know God exists with certainty on the basis of the created world. Revelation is the love and knowledge of God that we cannot possibly arrive at by our own powers of reason. Out of divine love, God has chosen to reveal himself to the...
Proclaim the Gospel to All Creation (CCC 74-133)
The Transmission of Divine Revelation Christianity is a religion of the ‘Word of God’, a living and Incarnate Word. In Apostolic Tradition and in the books of Sacred Scripture, God speaks to humanity in human words that are the ‘speech of God as it is put down in writing under the breath of the Holy...
Bring About the Obedience of Faith (CCC 142-196)
Faith as the Human Response to God’s Revelation God’s revelation of love in Christ Jesus – in the power of the Holy Spirit – for our salvation, offers the possibility of a human response. Faith is the human response to God, who reveals. For Christians, faith is a free response of assent to the...
I Believe in God (CCC 199-349)
Faith in God as Mystery and Trinity; Belief in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth We begin the Christian Creed by professing belief in God, the ‘Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth’. This is the starting point for the whole symphony of Christian belief – in God, who is...