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Church Signs – these signs actually appeared on church properties or in church bulletins.

Next Thursday there will be try-outs for the choir.  They need all the help they can get.




Catholic WORD of the Week

“Faith – The term “faith” has an objective and a subjective sense: (1) it refers to the body of saving truth, contained in the Scriptures, Creeds, conciliar definitions, teachings of the Magisterium and the writings of the doctors and saints of the Church (fides quae creditor); (2) it refers to the subjective acts and dispositions by which these doctrines are believed (fides qua creditor). In this second sense, faith is one of the three infused theological virtues. Together with hope and love, faith constitutes the operative side of the life of sanctifying grace in the human person.  Just as the entire nature of the person is transformed by the gift of grace, so also are his particular spiritual capacities by faith, hope and love.  The life of grace does not introduce additional faculties of intellect and will so that they can function at an entirely new level in knowing and loving God.  Thus, the infused theological virtue of faith makes it possible to know God and all that He has revealed.  Properly speaking, therefore, the disposition and acts of faith have God Himself as their primary object, and secondarily the various truths about Him that are taught in the Church.  It is for this reason that Tradition has taught that we believe in revelation on the strength of God Himself revealing.  Nothing less than the First Truth itself – revealed and revealing – is the proper object of faith.  Although primarily a disposition of the intellect, faith nevertheless involves an act of the will.  For faith is not like the adoption of a conclusion on the basis of sufficiently compelling evidence and argument: the grace of God is active in moving the will to believe.  For this reason, faith is never only intellectual, but also fiducial:  One’s whole being responds to the revealing God in obedience and trust.”     Our Sunday Visitor’s Catholic Encyclopedia, page 392