{"id":7594,"date":"2011-06-14T01:01:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T05:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=7594"},"modified":"2011-04-30T06:37:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T10:37:57","slug":"seeing-is-believing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2011\/06\/14\/seeing-is-believing\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing is Believing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2011\/03\/100_0269-300x224.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7106\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2011\/03\/100_0269-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>Many criticize the faith of St. Thomas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, all do not have his faith or less&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Our Faith cannot be based in signs, wonders and miracles. Our faith is Christ. . .&#8221;Faith is the certainty of that which is hoped for, the demonstration of realities that are not seen. (Hb 11:1)<\/p>\n<p>The Hebrew people received great signs of God, \u00a0but\u00a0soon\u00a0became accustomed\u00a0to\u00a0sinning and\u00a0murmuring\u00a0against God.<\/p>\n<p>So also are we, although even seeing great signs, cures and miracles, we continue to live a selfish life, many times dubious and unworthy of the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>That which is up to us is to pray with the music of\u00a0Jorge\u00a0Eugenio:<em> &#8220;Da\u00ed-nos uma f\u00e9 viva, uma f\u00e9 nova, traduzida em vida, testemunhada no amor pelos irm\u00e3os\u2026&#8221; [&#8220;Give us\u00a0a\u00a0lively faith,\u00a0a\u00a0new faith,\u00a0translated\u00a0into\u00a0life, a witness in love for the\u00a0brothers\u00a0in\u00a0love\u00a0&#8230;&#8221;]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My Lord and my God, I believe&#8230;But increase my faith.<\/p>\n<p>Ademir Costa<\/p>\n<p>translated from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/diariodeumconsagrado\/2011\/04\/30\/eu-so-acredito-vendo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Portuguese<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many criticize the faith of St. Thomas&#8230; Therefore, all do not have his faith or less&#8230; Our Faith cannot be based in signs, wonders and miracles. Our faith is Christ. . .&#8221;Faith is the certainty of that which is hoped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25555,25556],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7597,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594\/revisions\/7597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}