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The Year of Faith…is a summons to an authentic and renewed conversion to the Lord, the one Savior of the world.
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Apostolic Letter
“MOTU PROPRIO DATA”
PORTA FIDEI
For the indication of the Year of Faith
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The “door of faith” (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering entry into his Church. It is possible to cross that threshold when the word of God is proclaimed and the heart allows itself to be shaped by transforming grace. To enter through that door is to set out on a journey that lasts a lifetime. It begins with baptism (cf. Rom 6:4), through which we can address God as Father, and it ends with the passage through death to eternal life, fruit of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, whose will it was, by the gift of the Holy Spirit, to draw those who believe in him into his own glory (cf. Jn 17:22).
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Apostolic Letter
“MOTU PROPRIO DATA”
PORTA FIDEI
For the indication of the Year of Faith
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I propose you intensely live the Year of Faith, which will begin in October, fifty years from the opening of Vatican Council II. The conciliar documents contain an enormous wealth for the formation of new generations of Christians, for the formation of our consciousness. Read them, read the Catechism of the Catholic Church and rediscover the beauty of being Christians, of being Church and enjoying the great 'we' that Jesus formed around Him, to evangelize the world: the 'we' of the Church, never closed, but always open and projected towards the proclamation of the Gospel.
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Homily
Frascati, Italy
15 July 2012
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