"We
have reached the eve of the day on which we will celebrate the fiftieth
anniversary of Vatican Council II and the beginning of the Year of Faith",
said His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI at the start of his catechesis during this
morning's general audience in St. Peter's Square. "And it is about the
great ecclesial event of the Council that I wish to speak", he explained.
"The
documents of Vatican Council II are, even in our own time, a compass guiding
the ship of the Church as she sails on the open seas, amidst tempests or
peaceful waves, to reach her destination". Vatican II, in which Pope
Benedict participated as a young professor of fundamental theology at the
University of Bonn, was, he said, "a unique experience" during which
"I was able to witness the living Church ... which places herself at the
school of the Holy Spirit, the true driving force behind the Council. Rarely in
history has it been possible, as it was then, to touch almost physically the
universality of the Church at a moment of peak fulfilment of her mission to
carry the Gospel into all ages and unto the ends of the earth".
"The
age in which we live continues to be marked by forgetfulness and deafness
towards God. I believe, then, that we must learn the simplest and most
fundamental lesson of the Council: that the essence of Christianity consists in
faith in God, ... and in the individual and community encounter with Christ Who
guides our lives. ... The important thing today, as was the desire of the
Council Fathers, is for us to see - clearly and anew - that God is present,
that He concerns us and responds to us. And when faith in God is lacking our
essential foundations give way because man loses his dignity. ... The Council
reminds us that the Church ... has the mandate to transmit God's salvific word
of love, so that the divine call which contains our eternal beatitude may be
heard and accepted".
The
Pope then went on to mention the four conciliar Constitutions, describing them
as "the four cardinal points of our guiding compass": "Sacrosanctum
Concilium" on the sacred liturgy, which speaks of the centrality of
the mystery of Christ's presence in the Church; "Lumen Gentium"
which highlights the Church's fundamental duty to glorify God; "Dei
Verbum" on Divine Revelation, which speaks of the living Word of God
that unites and animates the Church throughout history, and finally "Gaudium
et Spes" which deals with the way the Church transmits to the world
the light it received from God.
"Vatican
Council II", Benedict XVI concluded, "is a powerful appeal to us to
make a daily rediscovery of the beauty of our faith, to understand it deeply
through a more intense relationship with the Lord, and to live out our
Christian vocation to the full".
For more information,
please visit:
http://www.news.va/en/news/conciliar-documents-a-compass-to-guide-the-ship-of
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On
Wednesday, 10 October 2012, the eve of celebrations for the 50th anniversary of
the opening of the Second Vatican Council, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore
Romano, published a special edition. It opens with an article written by His
Holiness Pope Benedict XVI on his personal memories of the great ecumenical gathering.
Penned this past summer in Castel Gandolfo, the article is in fact the preface
to a collection of writings by the young Professor Joseph Ratzinger at the time of
the Council, which, however, have never been published.
For more information,
please visit:
http://en.radiovaticana.va/articolo.asp?c=628717
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CREDO, DOMINE
Hymn for the Year of Faith
1. Pilgrims we, full of expectation,
searching in the darkness.Lord, you come, revealing the Father,
You for us are Son of the Most High.
Credo Domine, credo!
With the saints who are walking with us,
O Lord, we ask:
Adauge, adauge nobis fidem!
Credo Domine, adauge nobis fidem!
2. Pilgrims we, lost and despairing,
what bread for our journey?Lord, your Birth feeds us with your light,
You for us are the Morning Star.
Credo Domine, credo!
With Mary, the first of all believers,
O Lord, we pray:
Adauge, adauge nobis fidem!
Credo Domine, adauge nobis fidem!
3. Pilgrims we, broken and
exhausted,
our wounds open still.Lord, you heal those who seek you in the desert
You for us are the hand that heals.
Credo Domine, credo!
With the poor who are yearning for help,
O Lord, we implore:
Adauge, adauge nobis fidem!
Credo Domine, adauge nobis fidem!
4. Pilgrims we, your cross on our
shoulders,
we follow in your footsteps.You arise in the morning of Easter,
You for us are life everlasting.
Credo Domine, credo!
With the humble who wish to be born anew,
O Lord, we plead:
Adauge, adauge nobis fidem!
Credo Domine, adauge nobis fidem!
5. Pilgrims we, gathered by your
call
for each new Pentecost.You recreate the breath of the Spirit,
You for us are the Word of the future.
Credo Domine, credo!
With the Church which proclaims your Gospel,
O Lord, we invoke:
Adauge, adauge nobis fidem!
Credo Domine, adauge nobis fidem!
6. Pilgrims we, thankful and united
each day that you give.Lord, you guide us on the pathway of life
You for us are the hope of salvation.
Credo Domine, credo!
With the world where your kingdom is among us,
O Lord, we cry:
Adauge, adauge nobis fidem!
Credo Domine, adauge nobis fidem!
For
more information, please visit:
http://www.annusfidei.va/content/novaevangelizatio/en/annus-fidei/inno-musicale.html
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