• The Full-Color What We Believe Workbook – Provides session overviews, home reading assignments, engaging study questions, responses, and talk notes for the video presentations.
What exactly is the Catholic Church? What exactly does it mean to be a Catholic? What precisely do Catholics believe? The Catholic Church is exceptional. The Catholic Church, founded by Christ himself, is where we encounter God through his Word, Sacraments, and Saints. The Church authentically proclaims the whole word of God, leaving no truth out. It proclaims the completeness of existence, leaving no one out. It exhorts everyone to repentance and faith in God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the source of all life and salvation.Perhaps you've been a practising Catholic your entire life. Maybe you're just starting to learn about the Catholic faith. Wherever you are in your journey, the beauty and depth of the Catholic Church will profoundly impact you.What We Believe, written by Marcellino D'Ambrosio and Andrew Swafford, outlines and explains the main principles of the Catholic Faith in a readable, understandable manner. It contains the following topics:
- The Catholic Faith: The Fullness of Christian Life – What it means to be Catholic and the fullness of the Faith.
- The Journey of Faith – God’s revelation and our response of faith.
- God the Father, Creation, and the Fall – God as Father and Creator, creation, humanity, and the Fall.
- Jesus Christ Our Savior – The Incarnation, Jesus as true God and true man, and his Passion, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension.
- The Holy Spirit, the Breath of God – Who the Holy Spirit is and his role in the Church and Christian life.
- The Church – The Church as part of God’s plan of salvation and the place where we encounter his grace.
- The Sacramental Life – The sacraments, grace, Baptism, the Eucharist, and sharing in the divine life.
- Union with God: The Life of Prayer – Prayer, the Mass, Eucharistic Adoration, the Rosary, Liturgy of the Hours, devotions, and other forms of Catholic prayer.
- Fasting: Becoming Christlike – Fasting, repentance, self-control, detachment, and making greater room for God.
- Almsgiving: Our Mission of Mercy – Christian love, almsgiving, and the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.