Year of Faith

• Season	Vatican II document	Catechism part
  From opening	Gaudium et Spes, n.1-11 The Church in the Modern World
  Advent and Christmas	Dei Verbum On Divine Revelation	Profession of Faith (from the start fo the YoF)
  Lent	Sacrosanctum Concilium On the Sacred Liturgy of the Church	Prayer
  Easter	Lumen Gentium On The Church	The Celebration of the Christian Mystery
  After Pentecost	Gaudium et Spes	Life in Christ

  Archbishop Bernard asks that after the Creed at Mass the following three three lines are profess by all:

  This is our faith.
  This is the faith of the Church.
  We are proud to profess it in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Amen.

  And that all pupils from Y3-Y13 are led in professing the Apostles Creed and these three lines daily at school.

  Musical version of the Proclamation ‘This is our Faith’, download here. Choral Version, Melody, guitar, keyboard version.

• Resources for Schools

  

  YoF Primary Opening Liturgy YoF school staff YoF Powerpoint Presentation YoF Retreat Days Primary School Heads YoF Retreat Days for Primary School Staff YoF Retreat Days Secondary School SMT YoF Retreat Day Secondary School Staff YoF Prayer for primary schools YoF Prayer for secondary schools

   

• Parish/ School Pack

  A Parish Pack will contain the following (please click to download a pdf)

  Gaudium et Spes – Sheet 1 by Fr Stephen Gaudium et Spes – Sheet 2 by Fr Stephen Gaudium et Spes – Sheet 3 by Fr Stephen Life Sketch of Blessed Dominic Barberi Celebrating the Year of Faith in Parishes How Catholic am I? Questionnaire Letter to Headteachers Liturgy of the Word with Children

  Year of Faith – Opening Invitation Year of Faith – Service Year of Faith – Workshops A3 Poster A4 Poster A6 Prayer Card Parishes A6 Prayer Card Schools The Year of Faith YoF web info

  Dei Verbum-1 Dei Verbum-2 Dei Verbum-3 Dei Verbum-4 Sacrosanctum Concilium1 Sacrosanctum Concilium2 Sacrosanctum Concilium3 Sacrosanctum Concilium4 Lumen Gentium1 Lumen Gentium2 Lumen Gentium3 Lumen Gentium4 Lumen Gentium5

  Consider a Year of Faith Pilgrimage

  • Pilgrimage
  • Events

  Year of Faith Evangelisation Workshops

  • Please click here to download Year of Faith Evangelisation Workshops 2013
  • Please click here to download a poster for North Staffordshire Deanery
  • Please click here to download a poster for Kidderminster Deanery

  There are two handouts on the Year of Faith Workshops – One covering the background to Evangelisation in the Year of Faith and one on ways of reaching out to those outside the Church. These can be downloaded by clicking on:

  • Year of Faith Evangelisation Workshop Handout
  • Year of Faith Evangelisation Workshop Reaching Out Handout

  Year of Faith Diocesan Days

  • This talk was given by Canon David Evans to Catechists in Littlemore and Leamington Spa on 17th and 18th October 2012. These ideas were developed more fully in what he said on those occasions.
  • Please click here to download notes from Fr Paul Moss (Diocesan Vocations Director), Keynote speaker at Diocesan Day at St Chad’s Cathedral, 20 October
  • Powerpoint slides from the keynote talk given by Mgr Paul Watson at Immaculate Conception in Bicester for the people of the Oxfordshire deaneries

  Year of Faith reflections on the Sunday Readings

  • Please click here to download a pdf of The Year of Faith and the Sunday Scriptures by Canon Mervyn Tower
  • ADVENT and Dei Verbum

  Year of Faith Logo

  • Please click here to download a high resolution Year of Faith logo.

• Made for Greatness

  

  • Gaudium et Spes:
    www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651207_gaudium-et-spes_en.html
  • On Gaudium et Spes:
    www.americancatholic.org/Newsletters/VAT/aq1204.asp
  • Vatican Year of Faith website:
    www.annusfidei.va/content/novaevangelizatio/en.html
  • Catholic Bishops of England and Wales Year of Faith website:
    www.catholic-ew.org.uk/Home/Featured/Year-of-Faith
  • Birmingham Archdiocese Year of faith website:
    www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk
  • Youth Year of Faith website:
    www.madeforgreatness.co.uk
  • Maryvale Year of Faith website:
    www.catholic-year-of-faith.com

• Year of Faith Posts

  • Mass for the New Evangelization

    Click the link below to open the PDF. MISSA_Am_ENG Read more >

  • Launch Mass 14.10.12

    Read more >

  • Year of Faith Logo

    The boat represents the Church. The main mast of the boat is a cross and its sails are formed from the monogram IHS, the first three letters of the Greek Read more >

  • Doorway to Faith

    Vatican II The ‘Year of Faith’ will begin on 11 October 2012, the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council. The documents of the Council offer very important teaching in support Read more >

  • Blessed Dominic Barberi and the Year of Faith

    The pastoral recommendations for the Year of Faith which accompany the Apostolic Letter Porta Fidei of Pope Benedict XVI tell us ‘the Saints and the Blessed are authentic witnesses of Read more >

  • The Door of Faith

    Nearly 2,000 years ago an event on Calvary changed the whole history of time. And very few people knew about it. Fifty years ago this October a huge event in Read more >

  • Year of Faith

    The Year of Faith begins in October and, with just three months to go, we are making our final preparations in the Archdiocese for this important event. The Olympic and Read more >

• Pope Benedict XVI announced a special “Year of Faith” to help Catholics appreciate the gift of faith, deepen their relationship with God and strengthen their commitment to sharing faith with others.

  Celebrating Mass Oct. 16 with participants in a Vatican conference on new evangelization, the Pope said the Year of Faith would give “renewed energy to the mission of the whole church to lead men and women out of the desert they often are in and toward the place of life: friendship with Christ who gives us fullness of life.”

  The pope said the observance would begin Oct. 11, 2012 — the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council — and conclude Nov. 24, 2013 — the feast of Christ the King.

  “It will be a moment of grace and commitment to an ever fuller conversion to God, to reinforce our faith in him and to proclaim him with joy to the people of our time,” the pope said in his homily.

  Pope Benedict explained his intention more fully in “Porta Fidei” (“The Door of Faith”), an apostolic letter released Oct. 17 to formally announce the special year.