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 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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OBJECTIVE REALITY OF FAITH

WHAT WE BELIEVE IN

PRAYER, SACRAMENTS
(Worship)

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Scriptures, Tradition and

Human experience

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 that 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 is 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

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.

OBJECTIVES

Worship:
Nourish their life of faith in prayer by
actively participating in the various prayers,
liturgical celebrations and spiritual activities
activities in the school.

Song Analysis: Day by Day

Day by day, oh dear Lord, three

things I pray:
To know Thee more clearly
To love Thee more dearly
To follow Thee more nearly
Day by day.

1. Thinking (what we believe)

2. Doing (how we act)

3. Entrusting (how we pray)

I believe in God, the Father Alm

REALITY OF FAITH

OBJECTIVE
REALITY

What we
believe in

SUBJECTIVE
REALITY

Personal Act of
Believing

DIMENSION
S OF FAITH

OBJECTI VE
REALITY OF
FAITH

Content of
the Christian
Faith
Doctrine

Creed

what we
believe

Morals
how we act

Worship
why and
how we pray

SUBJECTIVE REALITY OF
FAITH

Believers
Acts of
Faith
Believing
(Paniniwala)

Commandment
s; Virtues,
Beatitudes

Prayer,
Sacraments

Doing
(Pagtalima)

Trusting
(Pagtitiwala)

APOSTOLI
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OF CLARET

Believers
Faculties
Head - knowing
God through
accepting the
divine Selfrevelation

Know

Hands/Will
following Gods
will, keeping the
Word of God and
the
commandments

Serve

Heart
entrusting to
Gods saving love
and celebrating
this especially in
prayer and

Love

education of
the intellect

education of
the will

education of
the heart

Faith as our personal response to Gods

Revelation involves the whole person
which leads to a personal commitment
to Jesus Christ.

Authentic Christian faith is not

measured by the number of
novenas and devotions we make
but:

1. On our basic convictions as Christians

2. On our commitment to do or obey Gods will for us
- Live out a life of loving service to others

3. On the quality of our prayer and worship

Christian Faith is not something fragmen

it is a way of life that integrates our
minds,
wills and
hearts

deepening our understanding of Christs mess

doing the truth in Christian service

celebrating in authentic prayer and sacramen

orship

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