Monday, October 17, 2005

A Good Definition of Faith

For the pastor at the Byzantium Catholic Church who said he didn't know what faith was and if anyone had a good definition to let him know (as reported by TSO).
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen…
St. Paul, Hebrews 11:1
If our priest said this I'd start worrying about everything else he said. It seems to me that someone who doesn't have at least an inkling of how they define faith is living an unexamined life. Way too unexamined on a very basic level to be giving the homily and telling everyone else how to live. At the very least, such a person is living a life without having read (every very cursorily) the classic Church Fathers...or certain parts of the Bible. Scary.

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