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Faith
 


The Christian faith is not a burden: it is like a wing which enables us to fly higher, so as to take refuge in God’s embrace.

 
Angelus Address
Prairie, Lourdes
14 September 2008

 
 
 
Faith
 


We are called to grow in faith, to open ourselves in order to welcome God’s gift freely, to have trust and also to cry to Jesus “give us faith, help us to find the way!”.
Faith opens us to knowing and welcoming the real identity of Jesus, his newness and oneness, his word, as a source of life, in order to live a personal relationship with him. Knowledge of the faith grows, it grows with the desire to find the way and in the end it is a gift of God who does not reveal himself to us as an abstract thing without a face or a name, because faith responds to a Person who wants to enter into a relationship of deep love with us and to involve our whole life.

 
Angelus Address
Castel Gandolfo
14 August 2011

 
 
 
Faith
 


Faith in Jesus entails following him daily, in the simple actions that make up our day. “It is part of the mystery of God that he acts so gently, that he only gradually builds up his history within the great history of mankind; that he becomes man and so can be overlooked by his contemporaries and by the decisive forces within history; that he suffers and dies and that, having risen again, he chooses to come to mankind only through the faith of the disciples to whom he reveals himself; that he continues to knock gently at the doors of our hearts and slowly opens our eyes if we open our doors to him” (Jesus of Nazareth II, 2011, p. 276).

 
REGINA CĆLI
St Peter's Square
Fifth Sunday of Easter
22 May 2011

 
 
 
Faith
 


‘Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with me. ‘This is a proclamation of unshakeable trust and encapsulates a radical experience of faith: the closeness of God transforms reality; the darkest valley loses all its perils.

 
General Audience
Psalm 23
5 October 2011

 
 
 
Faith
 


Having faith means drawing support from the faith of your brothers and sisters, even as your own faith serves as a support for the faith of others.

 
Homily
26TH WORLD YOUTH DAY
Cuatro Vientos Airbase
Madrid, Spain
21 Ausgust 2011

 
 
 
Faith
 


Particularly in our faith, we do not stand alone; we are links in the great chain of believers. Nobody can believe unless he is supported by the faith of others, and conversely, through my faith, I help to strengthen others in their faith.

 
Address to Youth
Freiburg, Germany
24 September 2011

 
 
 
Faith
 


God does not force us to believe in him but attracts us to him with the truth and goodness of his incarnate Son: love, in fact, always respects freedom.

 
Angelus Address
Castelgandolfo
10 July 2011

 
 
 
Faith
 


Faith in God opens the person to the horizon of a certain hope that does not disappoint; it indicates a solid basis on which to be able to found life without fear; it asks us to abandon ourselves with trust into the hands of Love that support the world.

 
Message to Cardinal Bagnasco
Italian Episcopal Convention
Rome
10-12 December 2009

 

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