At the heart of Catholic Faith is the living person of Jesus Christ who desires to encounter every human being personally to transform his life and bring him eternal happiness in heaven. The core beliefs of the Catholic Faith are found in the Nicene Creed.
For Catholics, and according to the Baltimore Catechism, the meaning and purpose of life is to know God, to love God, and to serve God in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in heaven. We can know God through prayer, Scripture, and the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. We can love God by knowing Him and keeping His Commandments. We can serve God by putting Him first and not serving any other master.
Catholic Belief
Catholics believe that God created the world in love, that human beings fell away from that love through sin, but that God has restored us to his love in his Son, Jesus Christ. In Jesus Christ, we discover God who became visible: he became man, lived a fully human life, suffered and died on the Cross for our sins and rose from the dead. To fulfill his promise to “be with you always, even until the end of the age” (Mt 28:20), Jesus established his Church as the place where every human being can encounter him. The whole of Catholic belief and life flows out of this reality.
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20 And now it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. The life I live now in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me. (Galatians 2:20)
“Be joyful, and keep your faith and your creed.” ― Saint David of Whales
“Faith is to believe what you do not see. The reward of faith is to see what you believe.” ― Saint Augustine
“I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.” ― Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
Act of Faith Prayer
O my God, I firmly believe that you are one God in three divine Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I believe that your divine Son became man and died for our sins and that he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe these and all the truths which the Holy Catholic Church teaches because you have revealed them who are eternal truth and wisdom, who can neither deceive nor be deceived. In this faith I intend to live and die. Amen.
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