Pope Benedict XVI announced a "Year of Faith" in his Apostolic Letter, "The Door of Faith." He declared it to begin on October 11, 2012 and end on November 24^th, 2013. It coincides with the 50^th Anniversary of the Opening of the Second Vatican Council. The Holy Father is calling us to "a renewed conversion to the Lord, the Savior of the World."

For Fr. d'Alzon, founder of the Augustinians of the Assumption, it is with "...the eyes of our Faith we can begin to penetrate the Divine Nature, but we must pass through Our Lord Jesus Christ, because only through him we will find access to the Godhead." (Fr. d'Alzon Day by Day, p. 344, To the Religious of the Assumption, August 1860, from The Essential d'Alzon (ES p. 1152-1153)