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The Trinity: Fides
The Catholic church today as was professed by the Fourth Lateran Council 1215, is
Trinitarian,
The Holy Trinity, which leads us to contemplate and worship the divine life of the
Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit: a life of communion and perfect love, origin
and aim of all the universe and of every creature: God. We also recognize in the
Trinity the model for the Church, in which we are called to love each other as
Jesus loved us. And love is the concrete sign that demonstrates faith in God the
Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 104
These truths regarding the trinity are better explained in light of St. Anselem of Caterbury’s
(1033 – 1109) motto, fides quaerens intellectum, “faith seeking understanding.” 105 Fides, Faith
which is “an obedient response to God” (FR, n.13), to His Word, is an encounter with the Word
that is God, the first encounter. Faith calls God’s people to action, to respond to their belief in
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Pope Francis, Angelus, St. Peter’s Square Sunday, 15 June 2014,
http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/angelus/2014/documents/papa-francesco_angelus_20140615.html,
accessed June 20, 2016
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Saint Anselm, The Theistic Proofs, “Faith Seeking Understanding”: The character and purpose of Anselm’s theistic
proofs, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anselm/, accessed June 7, 2016.