Hebrews 11
(11: 1) Faith is certainty things you can not see
[1] Faith is clinging to what is expected, is the certainty of things that can not be seen.
(CIC 1814) Faith is the theological virtue by which we in God and everything He has said and revealed, and that Holy Church proposes to us, because He is truth itself. By faith "man freely commits his entire God '( Dei Verbum, 5). So the believer seeks to know and do God's will. 'The just [...] shall live by faith' (Rom 1, 17). Living faith "works through love" (Ga 5, 6). (CIC 1842) By faith we believe in God and believe what He has revealed to us and that Holy Church proposes for our belief. (CIC 192) Throughout the centuries, in response to the needs of different times, there have been many professions or symbols of faith: the symbols of the different apostolic and ancient Churches (cf. Symbola fidei ab Ecclesia antiqua recepta : DS 1-64), Symbol Quicumque called St. Athanasius (cf. DS 75-76), professions of faith from various Councils (Toledo: DS 525-541; Lateran: DS 800-802; de Lyon: DS 851-861; of Trent: DS 1862-1870) or of some popes, such as Damasio fides (cf. DS 71-72) or the Credo of the People of God Paul VI (1968) ( Credo of the People of God ). (CIC 817) In fact, "in this one and only Church of God, appeared from the earliest times some divisions that the apostle reproves severely as condenables; y en siglos posteriores surgieron disensiones más amplias y comunidades no pequeñas se separaron de la comunión plena con la Iglesia católica y, a veces, no sin culpa de los hombres de ambas partes" ( Unitatis redintegratio , 3). Tales rupturas que lesionan la unidad del Cuerpo de Cristo (se distingue la herejía, la apostasía y el cisma; cf. CIC canon 751) no se producen sin el pecado de los hombres: Ubi peccata sunt, ibi est multitudo, ibi schismata, ibi haereses, ibi discussiones. Ubi autem virtus, ibi singularitas, ibi unio, ex quo omnium credentium erat cor unum et anima una ("Donde hay pecados, allí hay desunión, cismas, herejías, discusiones. Pero where there is virtue, there is no union, where it appeared that all believers had one heart and one soul "(Origen, Homily Ezechielem In 9, 1: PG 13, 732). (CIC 818) Those who born today in the communities arising from such breaches "and are instructed in the faith of Christ, can not be accused of the sin of separation and the Catholic Church embraces them with fraternal respect and love [...] justified by faith in the Baptism are incorporated into Christ, therefore, is rightly honored by the name of Christians and are recognized correctly by the children of the Catholic Church as brothers in the Lord "( UR, 3).
