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Faith
 


Faith grows when it is lived as an experience of love received and when it is communicated as an experience of grace and joy.

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

 
 
 
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“My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord.”
Mary acknowledges God’s greatness. This is the first indispensable sentiment of faith; the sentiment that gives certainty to the human creature and liberates the creature from fear, even in the midst of history’s storms.

 
Address
St. Peter's Square
1 June 2008

 
 
 
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We ask God to cure us of our problems, to meet our concrete needs - and it is right that we should do so. Yet we must insistently ask for an ever stronger faith, that the Lord may renew our lives, and a firm trust in His love, in His providence which does not abandon us.

 
Angelus Address
St. Peter's Square
1 July 2012

 
 
 
Faith
 


Faith grows when it is lived as an experience of love received and when it is communicated as an experience of grace and joy.

 
Homily
Silago, Guanajuato
Mexico
25 March 2012

 
 
 
Faith
 


Remain rooted in Christ and firm in your faith; the only way to be joyful and tireless witnesses of God's infinite love for us.

 
Angelus
Palm Sunday
St Peter's Square
17 April 2011

 
 
 
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Jesus showed the signs of his Passion even to the point of allowing Doubting Thomas to touch him; but how can a disciple possibly doubt? Actually God's indulgence enables us to profit even from Thomas' disbelief, as well as from the believing disciples. Indeed, in touching the Lord's wounds, the hesitant disciple not only heals his own diffidence but also ours.

 
Regina Caeli
Castel Gandolfo
11 April 2010

 
 
 
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Believing is not adding one opinion to others. And the conviction, the belief that God exists is not information like any other. Regarding most information, it makes no difference to us whether it is true or false; it does not change our lives. But if God does not exist, life is empty, the future is empty. And if God exists, everything changes, life is light, our future is light and we have guidance for how to live. Therefore, believing constitutes the fundamental orientation of our life. To believe, to say: "Yes, I believe that you are God, I believe that you are present among us in the Incarnate Son", gives my life a direction, impels me to be attached to God, to unite with God and so to find my dwelling place, and the way to live.

 
Homily
Parish Church of St Thomas of Villanova
Castel Gandolfo
15 August 2006

 
 
 
Faith
 


Faith… is an intimate relationship with Christ, who enables us to open our hearts to this mystery of love and to live as men and women conscious of being loved by God.

 
Address
World Youth Day Prayer Vigil
Madrid, Spain
20th August 2011

 

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