His Excellency Archbishop Rino Fisichella and Msgr. Graham Bell, respectively President and Under-Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelisation, held a press conference on 21 June 2012 to present the Year of Faith which is scheduled from 11 October 2012 to 24 November 2013.
Archbishop Fisichella also presented the website and logo of the Year of Faith, and outlined the calendar of events due to take place in Rome during that period.
"In his Apostolic Letter 'Porta fidei' Benedict XVI speaks ... of the need to rediscover the journey of faith so as to shed ever clearer light on the joy and renewed enthusiasm of the encounter with Christ", the archbishop said. "For this reason he called the Year of Faith, which will also coincide with two anniversaries: the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of Vatican Council II and the twentieth anniversary of the publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. ... The Year of Faith aims, above all, to support the faith of believers who, in their daily trials, never cease to entrust their lives to the Lord Jesus, with courage and conviction. Their precious testimony, which does not make the news, ... is what enables the Church to present herself to the world today, as she did in the past, supported by the strength of the faith and the enthusiasm of ordinary people….”
The President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelisation then went on to present the logo of the Year of Faith in which the image of a ship symbolises the Church. The mast of the vessel is a cross with full-blown sails which form the monogram of Christ (IHS) and in the background is a sun representing the Eucharist.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.news.va/en/news/presentation-of-the-year-of-faithhttp://www.annusfidei.va/content/novaevangelizatio/en.html
http://www.radiovaticana.org/EN1/Articolo.asp?c=598398
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Fortnight for Freedom begins in USAThe “Fortnight for Freedom” began with a Mass celebrated by Archbishop William Lori in Baltimore’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The fourteen days from June 21st to July 4th, Independence Day, are dedicated to prayer for the country. The period was chosen for the significance of the closing day in the national life of the United States – and also in view of the liturgical calendar, which celebrates a series of great martyrs who remained faithful in the face of persecution by political power: St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More, St. John the Baptist, SS. Peter and Paul, and the First Martyrs of the Church of Rome.
The period of prayer, study, catechesis, and public action is to emphasize both the Christian and American heritage of liberty, in the wake of serious challenges to the way religious freedom is understood, lived and protected in US fundamental law.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.news.va/en/news/fortnight-for-freedom-opens-in-us
http://www.usccb.org/
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Please make time to visit (often) the dynamic website of The Year of Faith. It captures the gift we have been given through Holy Mother Church, “to support the faith of believers who, in their daily trials, never cease to entrust their lives to the Lord Jesus, with courage and conviction.” The website radiates enthusiasm and builds excitement which will give life to the new evangelization—the Good News which each of us is called to share.
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