MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI FOR LENT 2013
“Believing in charity calls forth charity”
“We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us” (1 Jn 4:16)
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
The celebration of Lent, in the context of the Year of Faith, offers us a valuable opportunity to meditate on the relationship between faith and charity: between believing in God – the God of Jesus Christ – and love, which is the fruit of the Holy Spirit and which guides us on the path of devotion to God and others.
1. Faith as a response to the love of God
2. Charity as life in faith
3. The indissoluble interrelation of faith and charity
4. Priority of faith, primacy of charity
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