2012-01-07 19:41:11

Vatican issues recommendations for celebrating Year of Faith


(January 07.01.2012) At the invitation of Pope Benedict XVI, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in consultation with the competent Dicasteries of the Holy See and with the contribution of the Committee for the Preparation of the Year of Faith, issued Saturday some recommendations for living this time of grace. Pope Benedict XVI wants the Year of Faith, which runs from October 11 this year to November 24 2013, to help the Church focus its attention on “Jesus Christ and the beauty of having faith in him”, it said. The year is meant to “contribute to a renewed conversion to the Lord Jesus and to the rediscovery of faith, so that the members of the Church will be credible and joy-filled witnesses to the risen Lord, capable of leading those many people who are seeking it to the door of faith,” the statement said. Because the year’s start, October 11, coincides with the anniversaries of the opening of the Second Vatican Council in 1962 and the promulgation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church in 1992, it would be an auspicious occasion to make the work of the council and the catechism “more widely and deeply known”, it said. The congregation said the Pope “has worked decisively for a correct understanding of the council. The catechism “is an integral part of that ‘renewal in continuity’” by embracing the old and traditional while expressing it “in a new way, in order to respond to the questions of our times,” it said.










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