-Lionel Andrades
6. The Year of Faith was inaugurated on the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council. This is itself a clear indication that Vatican II was a Council on faith,[6]
inasmuch as it asked us to restore the primacy of God in Christ to the
centre of our lives, both as a Church and as individuals. The Church
never takes faith for granted, but knows that this gift of God needs to
be nourished and reinforced so that it can continue to guide her pilgrim
way. The Second Vatican Council enabled the light of faith to illumine
our human experience from within, accompanying the men and women of our
time on their journey. It clearly showed how faith enriches life in all
its dimensions.
7. These considerations on faith — in continuity with all that the
Church’s magisterium has pronounced on this theological virtue[7]
— are meant to supplement what Benedict XVI had written in his
encyclical letters on charity and hope. He himself had almost completed a
first draft of an encyclical on faith. For this I am deeply grateful to
him, and as his brother in Christ I have taken up his fine work and
added a few contributions of my own. The Successor of Peter, yesterday,
today and tomorrow, is always called to strengthen his brothers and
sisters in the priceless treasure of that faith which God has given as a
light for humanity’s path.-Pope Francis, Lumen Fidei
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