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Faith
 


The Church does not impose but freely proposes the Catholic faith, well aware that conversion is the mysterious fruit of the action of the Holy Spirit. Faith is a gift and a work of God, and hence excludes any form of proselytism that forces, allures or entices people by trickery to embrace it.

 
Address
Ad Limina Visit
Bishops of Kazakhstan
and Central Asia
2nd October 2008

 
 
 
Faith
 


Faith makes us fruitful, because it expands our hearts in hope and enables us to bear life-giving witness: indeed, it opens the hearts and minds of those who listen to respond to the Lord’s invitation to adhere to his word and become his disciples.

 
Apostolic Letter
“MOTU PROPRIO DATA”
PORTA FIDEI
For the indication of the Year of Faith

 
 
 
Faith
 


Knowledge of faith opens a door into the fullness of the saving mystery revealed by God. The giving of assent implies that, when we believe, we freely accept the whole mystery of faith, because the guarantor of its truth is God who reveals Himself and allows us to know His mystery of love.

 
Apostolic Letter
“MOTU PROPRIO DATA”
Porta Fidei
For the indication of the Year of Faith

 
 
 
Faith
 


The miracles of Christ are not a display of power, but signs of the love of God, which is made present where it encounters the faith of man.

 
Angelus Address
Castel Gandolfo
8 July 2012

 
 
 
Faith
 


In this Year of Faith, Lent is a favorable time to rediscover faith in God as the fundamental criterion of our lives and the life of the Church. This always implies a struggle, spiritual combat, because the spirit of evil, naturally, opposes our sanctification and tries to turn us from God's path.

 
Angelus Address
St. Peter's Square
17 February 2013

 
 
 
Faith
 


Faith is our response to the God who first speaks to us, makes himself known and calls us to enter into communion with him.

 
General Audience
Paul VI Hall
Vatican City
23 January 2013

 
 
 
Faith
 


Jesus Christ is not only the object of the faith, but as it says in the Letter to the Hebrews, he is “the pioneer and the perfecter of our faith” (12:2).

 
Homily
Opening of the Year of Faith
St Peter's Square
11 October 2012

 
 
 
Faith
 


In our own prayer, and especially in our celebration of the Eucharist, may we grow in the hope of Christ’s coming in glory, experience the transforming power of his grace, and learn to discern all things in the light of faith.

 
General Audience
Vatican City
12 September 2012

 

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