this city in the Paraiba Valley with prayers and above all with faith, a faith that is simple but without any doubt one that is all that faith should be: the search for God, sometimes distorted or imperfect [...] be a path for the people to their encounter in faith with God in Jesus largely depends on the attitude of the Pastors and pastoral workers. Help the faithful, therefore, to live their Marian devotion as [...] to counter the disintegration of the faith that is all too often facilitated by the proselytism of sects. History teaches that Mary is the true shield of the faith; in every crisis, the Church gathers
of people of all faiths visit the Basilica. The statue of Our Lady of Bandel or Our Lady of Good Voyage on the top of the Basilica is considered to be miraculous, and people of all faiths pray to Our Lady [...] Lady for favors. In front of the statue hundreds of candles are lit by pilgrims and the faithful. [1] http://www.pilgrimage-india.com/west-bengal/bandel-church.html , January 21, 2011. [2] Attilio GALLI
(cf. Mk. 3:35; par. Lk. 11:27-27) as she was faithfully doing (cf. Lk. 2:19; 51). Thus the Blessed Virgin advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and faithfully persevered in her union with her Son unto the [...] that is, the faithful, in whose generation and formation she cooperates with a mother's love. 64. The Church indeed contemplating her hidden sanctity, imitating her charity and faithfully fulfilling the [...] keeps in its entirety and purity the faith she pledged to her spouse. Imitating the mother of her Lord, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, she keeps intact faith, firm hope and sincere charity.[20] 65
obedience, faith, hope and ardent charity in the Savior's work" (Lumen Gentium, 61). She changed all of human history by her «Fiat» by her free consent to the will of God. By this act of faith and love, [...] work of Christian unity that the Second Vatican Council exhorted the faithful in the following words: "Let the entire body of the faithful pour forth persevering prayer to the Mother of God and Mother of humanity [...] Church nearby. Today's church was built in 1904 in Gothic style. The shrine attracts people from all faiths who pray in front of the statue of Our Lady for thanksgiving or requesting of favors. The shrine
The truth of an apparition of the Virgin Mary does not affect the dogma of faith by which the faithful are bound. Everyone knows that the Mother of God can appear and help her children. The practical question [...] Church in such matters is not concerned with the divinely revealed faith. It is rather a pastoral pronouncement, for the good of the faithful, with a varying degree of certainty. The Church does not claim
and suffering for the faith. But during his forced absences from Alexandria, the Bishop was able to sustain and to spread in the West, first at Trier and then in Rome, the Nicene faith as well as the ideals [...] the date of the Easter celebration, but above all to guarantee the links between the faithful, reinforcing their faith and preparing them for this great Solemnity. Lastly, Athanasius also wrote meditational [...] from the preaching of the Alexandrian priest, Arius. With his theory, Arius threatened authentic faith in Christ, declaring that the Logos was not a true God but a created God, a creature "halfway" between
Mary doesn't know Christ either. And a faith in Christ that doesn't include a devotion to the Mother of God is a different Christian faith than the Church's faith. ________________________________________
virtues (cf. 1Co 13: 13): faith, hope, and charity. (2) The Second Vatican Council shows Mary as our model “The Mother of God is a type of the Church in the order of faith, charity and perfect union with [...] They inform and give life to all the moral virtues. They are infused by God into the souls of the faithful to make them capable of acting as his children and of meriting eternal life. They are the pledge
St Hilary asks, at the end of his Treatise on the Trinity, to be able to remain ever faithful to the baptismal faith. It is a feature of this book: reflection is transformed into prayer and prayer returns [...] Pastor impelled him to work strenuously to re-establish the unity of the Church on the basis of right faith as formulated by the Council of Nicea. To this end he began to draft his own best-known and most important [...] wrote the Book of Synods in which, for his brother Bishops of Gaul, he reproduced confessions of faith and commented on them and on other documents of synods which met in the East in about the middle of
of the faithful towards the mysteries of salvation wrought by Jesus Christ. The "Great Antiphons" sung at Vespers before Christmas in the Catholic Church are a vestige of just that. The faithful having [...] with "the power from on high". This is how the Pentecost novena came about, a novena by which the faithful meditate and prepare for the gift of the Spirit, like the prayers of the Church at that time invited