Questioning Faith or Questioning Doubt

Have you ever how noticed how at times our faith, our belief in God, is strong and unwavering; God seems near, we can sense His presence and love in our life. Yet at other times our belief seems to wobble and we find ourselves questioning God’s existence.

Most of us experience this wavering in our faith but it can still upset us, even make us wonder if we are losing the faith we were brought up in. We might start to ask ourselves why we continue to come to Mass, why we want our children to come with us. Maybe we’re not sure what the basis of our belief is. We can’t remember what we learned at school or whether we understood what we were taught.

Experiencing these kinds of doubts and uncertainties can be really good for us if we try to do something about them, seek answers and grow in understanding, in making our faith our own so that we will be able to pass it on to our children and others.

We can also find ourselves in a bit of a dilemma if a child comes home from school and throws a casual question at us such as “What do you think God is really like?”, or, “have you seen God and why do you believe in Him?” These are very basic questions but not so easy to answer unless we have a real conviction in our faith.

Have you ever wished there was some way you could get answers to questions of faith? Nowadays our lives are so busy we don’t have much time to study and update our understanding of our faith.

Perhaps you have questions you’d like to ask about God, faith, the Mass, the sacraments, prayer. In the coming months we would like to try to address the questions people ask. We propose to have a Question Box in the church beside the sacristy door into which you can pop your questions, or, alternatively, you could email them to website@knocklyonparish.com and we will try to address some of them.