We shall arrive at a better understanding of faith if we analyzed an act of faith, hence, for an act of faith we shall need a faculty capable of eliciting the act. The act of faith is defined as the assent of the intellect to a truth which is beyond its comprehension, but which it accepts under the influence of the will, moved by grace.

Faith being a virtue, it follows that a person promptitude in believing will make them love the truths, he and she believes, and he and she will therefore study them, not indeed in the spirit of doubting inquiry, but in order the better to grasp them as far as human reason will allow.

Now the question immediately arises; what sort of hope could ever justify the statement that, on the basis of the hope and simply because its exists, we are redeemed? And what sort of certainty is involved here?

Life is not a simple product of laws and the randomness of matter, but within everything and at the same time above everything, there is a personal will, there is a Spirit who in God has revealed himself as Love.

Love embraces the whole of existence in each of its dimensions, including the dimension of time. it could hardly be otherwise, since its promise looks towards its definitive goal; love looks to the eternal.

Love is indeed "ecstasy", not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an ongoing exodus out of the closed inward-looking self towards its liberation through self-giving, and thus towards authentic self-discovery of God.

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -