Prayer During Year Of Faith

O God our loving Father

I thank you for having called me

and blessed me with the gift of faith.

May this Year of Faith be a time

of renewing and deepening my faith

and to proclaim it with deep conviction

through my words and deeds.

May the celebration of the sacraments

help me to grow in love for you

and for my community

as I offer myself to serve you.

May my life be a manisfestation

of your continued presence in our world today.

As you open the door of faith to me, O Lord,

help me to grow in a personal

relationship with you

so that I may share the fruits of my prayer

in the building up of your Kingdom of love.

We ask this through Christ our Lord.
AMEN.

"The obedience of faith is to be given to God ..

To make this act of faith, 

the grace of God and the interior help 

of the Holy Spirit must precede and assist, 

moving the heart and turning it to God, 

opening the eyes of the mind 

and giving joy and ease to everyone 

in assenting to the truth and believing it. 

To bring about an ever deeper 

understanding of revelation 

the same Holy Spirit 

constantly brings faith 

to completion by His gifts."

~~~ Dei Verbum 5 ~~~