We can be sure our beloved pope is standing today at the window of the father's house, that he sees us and blesses us.
More Quotes from Pope Benedict:
In today's world, God is absent. People need anesthesia to live. They live in a dark world.Pope Benedict
Lent is, in the end, through alms giving, the occasion for sincere sharing of gifts received with one's brothers and for attention to the needs of the poorest and abandoned ones.
Pope Benedict
It is extremely powerful, the idea in this psalm, that in this 'unformed' embryo God already sees the whole future. In the Lord's book of life, the days that this creature will live and will fill with works during his time on earth are already written.
Pope Benedict
God comes down and becomes a slave he washes our feet so we can be at his table. The bath in which he washes us is his love, ready to confront death. Only love has the purifying force that takes away our filth and elevates us to God.
Pope Benedict
But the point is that Christ's resurrection is something more, something different. If we may borrow the language of the theory of evolution, it is the greatest 'mutation,' absolutely the most crucial leap into a totally new dimension that there has ever been in the long history of life and its development a leap into a completely new order which does concern us, and concerns the whole of history.
Pope Benedict
In his last years, the Lord gradually stripped him of everything. When he could no longer travel and then not walk and finally not even speak, his gesture, his proclamation was reduced to the essential to the gift of self until the last.
Pope Benedict
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