PORTA FIDEI (Door of Faith) is the latest Apostolic Letter of Pope Benedict XVI formally announcing the Year of Faith from October 11, 2012-November 24, 2013.
"In the light of all this, I have decided to
announce a Year of Faith. It will begin on 11 October 2012, the fiftieth
anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, and it will end on the
Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Universal King, on 24 November 2013. The
starting date of 11 October 2012 also marks the twentieth anniversary of the
publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church"
We want this Year to arouse in every believer the aspiration to profess the faith in fullness and with renewed conviction, with confidence and hope. It will also be a good opportunity to intensify the celebration of the faith in the liturgy, especially in the Eucharist, which is “the summit towards which the activity of the Church is directed; ... and also the source from which all its power flows. (No. 9)
Profession of faith is an act both personal and communitarian. It is the Church that is the primary subject of faith. In the faith of the Christian community, each individual receives baptism, an effective sign of entry into the people of believers in order to obtain salvation. (No. 10)
Faith without charity bears no fruit, while charity without faith would be a sentiment constantly at the mercy of doubt. Faith and charity each require the other, in such a way that each allows the other to set out along its respective path. (No. 14)
Given in Rome, at Saint Peter’s, on 11 October in the year 2011, the seventh of his pontificate.
