An Explanation beyond our abilities to understand, yet we accept the Mysteries of our Faith. What makes us Believers?

An explanation beyond our abilities to understand, yet we accept the Mysteries of our Faith.

What makes us Believers?

Eileen Renders

What beliefs do we hold close to our hearts and accept through our faith in Catholicism? How do we pass down this faith from generation to generation?

As children and young adults, as we grow in our faith, some of these mysteries include the following.

How God is, Always was, and Always will be?

How are there three persons in One God?

How was Jesus born without a traditional conception?

How is God omnipresent?

In seeking a Catholic explanation that defies reasoning, we are able through what we have learned, and what many experience from day to day through their deep loyalty and relationship with Christ, that we can accept wholeheartedly how these mysteries in and of themselves are proof that He is unique and only one of a kind.

For example. God is, always was, and always will be. Have we not been able to see His miracles, hear Him speak to us through the Holy Spirit, and learn of His Father through His very words for thousands of years?

Has not history documented His Crucifixion and death on the Cross, yet His return to life in three days? 

Has Jesus not provided witnesses of healings to those who put their trust in HIM? Jesus did this to teach us empathy, kindness, and love for all. Yet it cannot be denied, as a humble God in the flesh, He desired to show us who He is through these miracles of kindness. For His Apostles, He walked on water, turned water into wine at the Feast of Cana, where He instituted the sacrament of water. He was baptized not because He had sin, but always to be an example to us, that we might live as He taught.   

Faith is believing without seeing. We ourselves have trusted, prayed for, and received healings and the comforts that come to us through our faith, including, but not limited to, peace, joy, inspiration to share our faith, and much, much more! 

From the time we were toddlers, we learned right from wrong. We have all witnessed how lying, stealing, name-calling, disobedience, and other behaviors can hurt others. We begin to accept that, as Jesus stated, there is a Last Judgment. After this last Judgment, those who chose to live as God taught through His Commandments will be rewarded through an invitation to spend eternity with Him in paradise. Others who ignored His teachings and were not faithful to the Commandments may spend their necessary time of

 purification in Purgatory. Sadly, however, those who spat on the idea of Christ’s time on Earth, His teachings, and promises may be cast into Hell, where they will spend eternity.