lumen fidei - 5

lumen fidei - 5

Benedict XVI proclaims the Year of Faith so that we can be empowered to proclaim the faith in it's fullness.  The grace that enables us to do this is the experience of "the great joy of believing" and the "wonder at the vast horizons which faith opens up."

Do we have any more joy in our lives because we are believers than we otherwise would?

Do we have any sense at all of wonder at the horizon faith opens up?

We can see how this infuses both purpose and fulfillment into life when we look at the early Christian martyrs.  Life for them is so transformed by faith that they really recognize it as the new birth that it is. We can see just how real this vision is to them in their willingness to die in peaceful witness to it.