Review article
To build a culture of life from the faith. Faith as a "fixed" challenge but one that is always new
Zorica Maros
orcid.org/0000-0003-4908-2900
; University of Sarajevo - Catholic Faculty of Theology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
In his Apostolic Letter announcing the Year of the Faith, Pope Benedict XVI
identified the need for renewal in the Church and spoke of a new evangelization that
begins with believers themselves and consists of an authentic living of the faith. This
article reflects on the Pope’s letter, offering a framework for authentic living and pointing
to the boundaries that have to be crossed in order to fulfill that mission. The question
is how to live the Year of the Faith, or, to be more precise, what such living means.
The article shows that the quality of faith grows proportionally to the quality of life.
Faith, when it is properly understood and when it is lived personally, helps us to relate
in a better way to ourselves, to others and to the things around us. But faith is not declarative;
it is not a mechanical profession; it is not sentimental or simply a feeling of
belonging. Faith is an act of personal profession, of personal reliance, of consent and
of transmission of Truth; Truth which the individual has accepted through evangelization.
Faith is “life-based”, everyday repentance; it is an act of obedience and responsibility.
And such acts are impossible without good deeds, without deeds of love through
which the world becomes a better place in which to live.
Keywords
faith; repentance; culture of living
Hrčak ID:
266497
URI
Publication date:
31.1.2013.
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