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"But the fundamental reason for the Year of Faith is to call
all Catholics to the act of faith, that is, to the fundamental reality of our
relationship with Jesus Christ, to a joyful witnessing of our faith in him, and
to a courageous adherence to what Christ, in and through his Church, teaches us
about how to live and how to love. The Holy Father is concerned that, in
some cases, Catholics in their very laudatory focus on “the social, cultural
and political consequences” (Porta fidei, 2) of faith, may lose sight of the
very foundation which leads to those consequences.
We ourselves need to
nourish and strengthen our faith thorough the sacraments, through prayer,
through study of Catholic doctrine, especially the Catechism of the Catholic
Church. If we don’t nourish our faith, then little by little we will lose
the capacity to witness, and our work and our ministries will gradually become
indistinguishable from any kind of humanitarianism, however praiseworthy that
may be."
Homily of Archbishop Charles Brown, Apostolic Nuncio to
Full Homily here: Irish
Catholic Bishops Conference
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