III. The Characteristics of Faith

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

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When St. Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, Jesus
declared to him that this revelation did not come “from flesh and
blood”, but from “my Father who is in heaven”.²⁴ Faith
is a gift of God, a supernatural virtue infused by him. “Before this faith
can be exercised, man must have the grace of God to move and assist him; he
must have the interior helps of the Holy Spirit, who moves the heart and
converts it to God, who opens the eyes of the mind and ‘makes it easy for all
to accept and believe the truth.'”²⁵

PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH