The new evangelization tends to make our sense of personal identity grow in relation to our sense of belonging to the community.” These opportunities, provided by the Year of Faith to form authentic friendships in faith, bring to the fore the very question of community. It is essential, therefore, that believers recognize the responsibility to provide an authentic companionship of faith, to become a neighbor to those who seek the reasons for and explanations of our Catholic beliefs. The Year of Faith, he said, “is a path, an opportunity, that the Christian community offers to the many people who possess a longing for God and a profound desire to meet him again in their lives. In his closing remarks, Archbishop Fisichella said: “From both Scripture and Tradition, we can see that the path of the new evangelization has been marked out: we are called to renew the proclamation of Jesus Christ, of the mystery of his death and resurrection to stimulate people once more to have faith in him by means of conversion of life.” He continued, “If the proclamation of the new evangelization does not find its power in the element of mystery which surrounds life and which relates us to the infinite mystery of the God of Jesus Christ, it will not be capable of the effectiveness required to elicit the response of faith.”Īrchbishop Fisichella said the Second Vatican Council offered “a new anthropology for our age, within the primacy of the mystery, new horizons are opened up for the pastoral action of the Church.” He said, “An initial path is that of the constant search for the face of God and, it is precisely this very quest that the Year of Faith seeks to inspire in the hearts and minds of all.” The three day conference was organised by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. (Vatican Radio) Proclaim 2012 has drawn to an end in Sydney Australia with a call from Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for New Evangelisation, to "put Jesus at the heart" of all efforts in New Evangelisation.
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