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 month
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 made his
first step then ran and
jumped towards his
father who was ready to
catch and hugs him as
the child obeys his
command. The child
immediately rushed to
his father without
knowing that what he
did was very dangerous.

Activity: Trust Walk

2. Why is trust in your partner

important?

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?

FAITH AS A LOVING
RESPONSE TO GODS
REVELATION

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

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 do you trust

your partner?

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

A. Guide
learns about the challenge
and responsibility of caring
for another individuals well
being

Activity: Trust Walk

B. 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, school bus drivers, cook etc

Faith is our loving knowledge

the way we know our parents,
Brothers and sisters, friends, etc.

FAITH AS A LOVING RESPONSE

TO GODS REVELATION

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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

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

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 Ecclesial