True love, on the other hand, unifies all the elements of our person and becomes a new light pointing the way to a great and fulfilled life. Its light does not simply brighten the interior of the Church, nor does it serve solely to build an eternal city in the hereafter; it helps us build our societies in such a way that they can journey towards a future of hope. §37. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Space hardens processes, whereas time propels towards the future and encourages us to go forward in hope.” (57), Our daily email recaps the big issues of the day from a fresh perspective. Only to the extent that love is grounded in truth can it endure over time, can it transcend the passing moment and be sufficiently solid to sustain a shared journey.

With its frequent quotations from German philosophers, “Lumen Fidei” echoes the themes and buzzwords of Benedict’s pontificate, emphasizing the importance of reasserting the truth of Christian faith against a modern culture marked by “relativism.”. On faith as the foundation of a just society: 12. It is through an unbroken chain of witnesses that we come to see the face of Jesus.”, “Persons always live in relationship.

“Faith becomes operative in the Christian on the basis of the gift received, the love which attracts our hearts to Christ (cf. Forgiveness is possible once we discover that goodness is always prior to and more powerful than evil, and that the word with which God affirms our life is deeper than our every denial.”. Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapter, Register to vote and apply for an absentee ballot today. It makes us aware of a magnificent calling, the vocation of love.” (53). To the extent that they are sincerely open to love and set out with whatever light they can find, they are already, even without knowing it, on the path leading to faith.”, “Because all the articles of faith are interconnected, to deny one of them, even of those that seem least important, is tantamount to distorting the whole. Could it be the case, instead, that we are the ones who are ashamed to call God our God? Welcome back.

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Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Either that, or it is reduced to a lofty sentiment which brings consolation and cheer, yet remains prey to the vagaries of our spirit and the changing seasons, incapable of sustaining a steady journey through life.”, “If love needs truth, truth also needs love. Jn 1:18).” (18), 3. The first Latin American and Jesuit pontiff arrived in Brazil mainly for the huge five-day Catholic gathering World Youth Day. Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.

3 Thoughts on the Convocation of Catholic Leaders. It assures us that this love is trustworthy and worth embracing, for it is based on God’s faithfulness which is stronger than our every weakness.”, “We need to return to the true basis of brotherhood.”, “Faith teaches us to see that every man and woman represents a blessing for me, that the light of God’s face shines on me through the faces of my brothers and sisters.”, “Faith also helps us to devise models of development which are based not simply on utility and profit, but consider creation as a gift for which we are all indebted; it teaches us to create just forms of government, in the realization that authority comes from God and is meant for the service of the common good. “It would be logical, from this point of view, to attempt to sever the bond between religion and truth, because it seems to lie at the root of fanaticism, which proves oppressive for anyone who does not share the same beliefs. Yet in the absence of light everything becomes confused; it is impossible to tell good from evil, or the road to our destination from other roads which take us in endless circles, going nowhere.” (3), 2. Gen 2:24) and are enabled to give birth to a new life, a manifestation of the Creator’s goodness, wisdom and loving plan.” (52), 11. Without truth, love is incapable of establishing a firm bond; it cannot liberate our isolated ego or redeem it from the fleeting moment in order to create life and bear fruit.”, “Christian faith, inasmuch as it proclaims the truth of God’s total love and opens us to the power of that love, penetrates to the core of our human experience. This union is born of their love, as a sign and presence of God’s own love, and of the acknowledgment and acceptance of the goodness of sexual differentiation, whereby spouses can become one flesh (cf. LUMEN FIDEI OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF FRANCIS TO THE BISHOPS PRIESTS AND DEACONS CONSECRATED PERSONS AND THE LAY FAITHFUL ON FAITH . For the Nov 3 election: States are making it easier for citizens to vote absentee by mail this year due to the coronavirus. §36. We come from others, we belong to others, and our lives are enlarged by our encounter with others.”, “It is impossible to believe on our own. As Francis himself told a group of cardinals and bishops in May, the encyclical was written “with four hands” together with retired Pope Benedict XVI.

Hopefully these quotes will inspire a more detailed reading of the entire text since it is a true gift to the Church. Gal 5:6), and enables us to become part of the Church’s great pilgrimage through history until the end of the world. “If love needs truth, truth also needs love.

“Most people nowadays would not consider love as related in any way to truth. Love and truth are inseparable. Humility prevents me from giving this post the title ‘Top 23 Quotes from Lumen Fidei’, so I will simply say that these are the passages that caught my eye as I read the encyclical, which was released earlier today: Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Required fields are marked *, You may use these HTML tags and attributes:

. It remains a beautiful story, the projection of our deep yearning for happiness, something capable of satisfying us to the extent that we are willing to deceive ourselves. ( Log Out /  The light of Faith: this is how the Church’s tradition speaks of the great gift brought by Jesus. Error rating book. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. James Martin, editor at large of the Jesuit weekly America.

CatholicVote Civic Action is inspired and organized by faithful Catholic laity. Faith thus appeared to some as an illusory light, preventing mankind from boldly setting out in quest of knowledge.”, “Faith is not a private matter, a completely individualistic notion or a personal opinion: it comes from hearing, and it is meant to find expression in words and to be proclaimed.”, “Faith without truth does not save, it does not provide a sure footing. In modernity, that light might have been considered sufficient for societies of old, but was felt to be of no use for new times, for a humanity come of age, proud of its rationality and anxious to explore the future in novel ways.

Time is always much greater than space. On the relationship between truth, love and faith: 5. On the need to witness to our faith publicly: 13.

Faith is passed on, we might say, by contact, from one person to another, just as one candle is lighted from another. As a result, humanity renounced the search for a great light, Truth itself, in order to be content with smaller lights which illumine the fleeting moment yet prove incapable of showing the way. AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBA (Photo credit should read YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images). “In many areas in our lives we trust others who know more than we do. ( Log Out /  It is a question about the origin of all that is, in whose light we can glimpse the goal and thus the meaning of our common path.”, “Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Hopefully these quotes will inspire a more detailed reading of the entire text since it is a true gift to the Church. In his 2019 post-synodal exhortation Christus vivit, Pope Francis cites himself 64 times in 299 paragraphs. The Varginha favela is a community of 1,000 people which for decades was under the sway of narco-traffickers until it came under police control less than a year ago. If love is not tied to truth, it falls prey to fickle emotions and cannot stand the test of time. Let us refuse to be robbed of hope, or to allow our hope to be dimmed by facile answers and solutions which block our progress, “fragmenting” time and changing it into space.

Jesus, the Son of God, is the one who makes God known to us (cf. Either that, or it is reduced to a lofty sentiment which brings consolation and cheer, yet remains prey to the vagaries of our spirit and the changing seasons, incapable of sustaining a steady journey through life.”, “Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.”, “Faith knows because it is tied to love, because love itself brings enlightenment.”, “Love cannot be reduced to an ephemeral emotion. Pero si así fuese, si Dios fuese incapaz de intervenir en el mundo, su amor no sería verdaderamente poderoso, verdaderamente real, y no sería entonces ni siquiera verdadero amor, capaz de cumplir esa felicidad que promete. The intention is to say that God, by his concrete actions, makes a public avowal that he is present in our midst and that he desires to solidify every human relationship. We have all seen, during World Youth Days, the joy that young people show in their faith and their desire for an ever more solid and generous life of faith. Yet in the past century, mankind has come to understand that the “light of autonomous reason is not enough to illumine the future.” For this reason, the two popes urge humanity to “see once again that faith is a light, for once the flame of faith dies out, all other lights begin to dim.”, The truth of faith, however, shouldn’t make believers “presumptuous” or “inflexible.” Echoing one of Francis’ favorite themes, the encyclical stresses that the “security of faith sets us on a journey; it enables witness and dialogue with all.”, “Speaking of the light of faith, we can almost hear the objections of many of our contemporaries. Your email address will not be published. 1. We made it easy for you to exercise your right to vote!

Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Here are the top 15 quotes that struck me on my first reading. Faith is not simply an individual decision which takes place in the depths of the believer’s heart, nor a completely private relationship between the “I” of the believer and the divine “Thou”, between an autonomous subject and God. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.

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