Faith in action is real faith. You cannot claim to have faith if you will not act. This is true of salvation and receiving answers to prayer. God does not reward passivity. He demands that we cooperate with grace in order for us to benefit from it.

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Do you see the reality of the Word of God or do you see only the natural circumstances? To see with faith is a matter of perceiving the world through the things God tells us in His word, both in the scriptures and in the Church's magisterium what we ought to see.

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Too often we pray with hope and not in faith. This is the reason many of us do not have answered prayers. Other times we pray in faith when we ought to be hopeful instead. And, this too causes people to think there can be no definite answer to prayer. That God says, "Yes," or "No," or "Wait" to our prayers.

But, if we will learn just how to pray and believe, we can move mountains and be effective in prayer.

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Faith comes by hearing (Romans 10:17). We have to hear the gospel to believe in it. We do not just reason it out all by ourselves. It is not an intellectual exercise. It is a trust. A trust that is rational and can be supported by evidence, but a trust nonetheless.

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What does it mean to believe or have faith? Is it possible to know what faith is?

We act in faith all the time. We go to work trusting that we will get paid after doing our jobs as an act of faith. We trust others and what they tell us about the world, like doctors when they tell us to take certain medications or adjust our diets so that we can remain healthy. As a result, we put faith in what we do not see or know that others inform us is a reality. We believe and not just assent that it could be true. We know it to be true because of what someone else tells us. This is faith.

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Jesus was baptised so we could have a means of recieving grace. A grace that does not come to us merely by confession in the form of a sinner's prayer. But a real impartation that we can experience in the waters of baptism.

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As we near the end of the Christmas season we are shown the connection between our baptism and the Nativity event. It is seen in the way we are to decrease and become more Christ-like or Christian in the true sense of the word. In doing so we gain victory over sin and live more and more holy. All of this comes to us through grace and is the blessing of being a child of God in Christ Jesus our vine.

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Why does the Christmas season continue until the Feast of the Baptism? It is because our rebirth by baptism is tied with His coming in the flesh and being born a man. As we close out the celebration of Christmas, the Church guides us to the practical application of our faith in the Nativity we celebrate. For Christmas is ultimately about our rebirth as children of God through gospel faith.

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We are commanded to love one another. This is the way in which we prove our faith in God and overcome a world filled with sinfulness. The reason why we can love others is because the anointing of grace that fills us with God's love.

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When we get into this part of the Christmas season, the Church has us look at the practical implications of the Nativity. We get to see how we benefit from the Incarnation and reflect on just how God participates in our everyday lives.

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