Litany of Faith - Year of Faith (6)

Response: Lord, increase my faith.

- In faith something meets us that is greater than anything we can think up for ourselves. R.

- Faith is a new Yes that becomes possible when we are touched by God. R.

- Faith is the finding of a You who bears me up and gives me the promise of an indestructible love. R.

- Faith means union with him whose power holds us fast and carries us over the elements of death. R.

- Faith is a breaking out of the isolation of my “I” and a resurrection of my true self. R.

- Faith is a reaching that point in which we recognize we need to be given something. R.

- Faith means opening our hand in trust and accepting a gift. R.

- Faith involves every domain of our existence: our mind, our will, our feelings, our love. R.

- Faith entails the shift from dependence on the visible and the practicable to trust in the invisible. R.

- Faith is the opening up of the inner powers of understanding that await the light of Truth. R.

- Faith is a call to community. R.

- Faith has to do with forgiving – we can find ourselves only in the receiving and giving of forgiveness. R.

- Faith must mature by suffering anew, at every stage of life, the oppression and the power of unbelief. R.

- Faith expands our hearts in hope and enables us to bear life-giving witness. R.

- Faith makes us light – to be a believer means to escape our own gravity. R.