RCIA meeting - further reading, from October 1st 2026
READINGS FROM THE YOUCAT FOR THIS SESSION
If you are using the YouCat with your Sycamore group, please click here for general advice about the YouCat and how to use the readings. Here are the readings that go with this week’s Sycamore session:
- #20 to #25 – what is faith? [4 pages]
- #299 to #309 – the virtues, including faith, hope and charity [4 pages]
NB the numbers (#) refer to paragraph numbers in the YouCat and not to page numbers. The number in [square brackets] at the end tells you roughly how long this passage is in terms of the pages you need to read (excluding picture pages).
LONGER READINGS FROM THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
If you have more time, and if you want to go deeper into the topic of this session, you can follow up by exploring the longer Catechism of the Catholic Church. See the standard online version here, and a digital “flip-book” edition here. Here are the readings that go with this week’s Sycamore session:
- #142 to #165 – the meaning of faith
- #166 to #184 – the common faith of the Church
- #1803 to #1845 – the virtues, including faith, hope and charity
NB the numbers (#) refer to paragraph numbers in the Catechism and not to page numbers. Click on the links themselves to read the paragraphs in the online version.
WISDOM FROM THE BIBLE
Hebrews 11:1
“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
Mark 5:34
Jesus says to the woman with the haemorrhage: “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease”.
John 3:16-18
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”
Mark 11:22, 24
Jesus says: “Have faith in God… Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”
John 11:25-26
Jesus says to Martha: “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die”
John 14:12-14
Jesus says: “Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it.”
John 20:28-29
“Thomas said to Jesus: ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus said to him, ‘Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.’”
Romans 10:9-11
“If you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved.”
James 2:14, 17-18
“What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? […] So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. But someone will say, ‘You have faith and I have works.’ Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.”
SYCAMORE FILMS on this topic
7A – What is faith?
7B – Are Christians just stupid or are there good reasons to believe?
7C – How to take a step of faith