Various Notions of Faith

Letter to Hebrew

• By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was to go.

• By faith, he lived as a stranger and pilgrim in the promised land.

• By faith, Sarah was given to conceive the son of the promise, and by faith Abraham offered his only son in sacrifice.

Christian Faith

• believing in God

• God revealed by Jesus Christ

• through the Catholic Church, the body of Christ, united in the Holy Spirit

Faith

• It means our total response to God’s revelation

Faith is centered on the practice of rites of popular piety

• Unchurched

• Folk Catholicism

Popular piety, personal piety, pious practice or pious exercise is external piety and?

Devotion

Piety

The quality of being religious

Pious practices

• come from and are bound up with the

  Eucharist

• cannot equal, replace or substitute

  the Liturgy

• not a priority in the Christian life,

  not necessary for salvation, and not

  an obligation.

• Sunday is not a popular piety, and

  popular pieties which have Sunday

  as their reference point are not to be

  encouraged.

Divisive Trends and Attitudes of Faith

Fundamentalist way, Ideological commitment, individualistic piety

Faith - central reality

• Human relationships and daily actions

• (paniniwala, pagsunod)

• Family and Friends