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Never a day goes by that I don’t ask the question about my faith and my life of faith. I doubt any serious Christian would go through life without asking the same: How does my faith impact my relationship with God and vice verse? Do I live in certain intimacy with the divine nature? Do others see God in me as I relate to them? How credible a witness am I of Jesus Christ and His Good News?<\/i><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n Without faith it is impossible to please God<\/i>. (Hebrews Divine Intimacy, Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, OCD<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Never a day goes by that I don’t ask the question about my faith and my life of faith. I doubt any serious Christian would go through life without asking the same: How does my faith impact my relationship with God and vice verse? Do I live in certain intimacy with the divine nature? Do … Continue reading Faith roots the relationship with God<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1716,1792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n11:6). Faith is the foundation of our relations with God. For the man without
\nfaith, God has no meaning, no value, no place in his life. On the contrary, the
\nmore lively our faith is, the more God enters into our life, until finally he
\nbecomes our all, the one great reality for; which we live, and the One for whom
\nwe courageously face sorrow and death. If we live, we live to the Lord, and if
\nwe die, we die to the Lord (Romans 14:8). Those who dedicate themselves to the
\nspiritual life do not lack faith; but often our faith is not alive and concrete
\nenough to make us always see God in everything, which would give us the sense
\nof his fundamental, transcendent and eternal reality that infinitely surpasses
\nall earthly realities<\/b>. In practice we do not reflect sufficiently on the truth
\nthat to be a believer is a pure gift of God, not due to any personal merit<\/span>. God
\nis both the object of faith and the giver of faith; it is he who infuses into
\nus the desire to know him and to believe in him and who makes us capable of the
\nact of believing.<\/span><\/p>\n