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[quote=Anonymous]The Catholic process of preparing for the sacrament of Confirmation (usually around 8th or 9th grade), is all about examining your faith and beliefs and choosing for yourself what your parents and Godparents chose for you at Baptism. I remember we had to keep a year long journal to explore and record our thoughts, and were often given prompts to write about. I remember writing an essay in it "Does God Exist?" which the priest at my final pre-Confirmaiton interview discussed with me at some length. Unsurprisingly, I ended up majoring in philosophy in college.

The pre-Cana preparation for marriage has you explore your faith again, as you are preparing to take a vow that includes a promise to raise your children in the faith, so it is important to explore what that vow means to you as a couple before you make it.

Also the Catholic Intellectual Tradition call for constant exploration of faith and reason. Boston College describes it in part here:

"The CIT is forged by a deep partnership between faith and reason, as if two sides of the same coin. It reflects the conviction that rational people need to understand their faith for it to be credible. Likewise, in-depth reasoning leads to questions of ultimacy that encourage a faith response. However, for any of us in the everyday of life, this faith/reason partnership of CIT coalesces most intensely around momentous questions about ourselves like “Where do we come from?”; “Who or what are we?”; and “Where are we going?” Responding to such ultimate issues calls for faith and reason working together, and at times, perhaps in fruitful tension."

https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/centers/church21/programs/catholic-intellectual-tradition.html[/quote]

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