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| JOHN PAUL II: BENEDICT XVI, THE "DO NOT BE AFRAID" AND THE LAST WAY OF THE CROSS |
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| Wednesday, 02 April 2008 | |
"You, you don't be afraid!". The words of the angel of resurrection, said to the women at the empty sepulchre, "have become a sort of slogan on the lips of Pope John Paul II, since the solemn beginning of his Peter's ministry". It was recalled today by Benedict XVI at Mass, three years after the death of his predecessor: "He repeated them on several occasions to the Church and to mankind en route to 2000 and than through that epoch-making target and beyond, at the dawn of the third millennium", said the Pope: "He always uttered them with unbending determination, first by brandishing the pastoral rod with the Cross on top and then, when his physical energy was dieing out, as if clinging on to it, up to that Last Holy Friday, when he took part in the Way of the Cross from his Private Chapel, holding the Cross in his arms". "We cannot forget that last and silent testimony of his love to Jesus", exclaimed the Pontiff, according to whom "even that telling scene of human suffering and faith, on that last Holy Friday, pointed out to the believers and to the world the secret of all Christian life".
His "Don't be afraid", explained the Holy Father, "was not grounded on human strength nor on success, but only on God's Word, on the Cross and on the Resurrection of Christ". "As he was being deprived of everything, lastly even of his speech, his reliance on Christ became more and more apparent", went on Benedict XVI: "As it happened to Jesus, also for John Paul II, in the end, words surrendered to the extreme sacrifice, to the offering of his own life. And death sealed a life that had been completely devoted to Christ, shaped on Him, even physically, in the traits of his suffering and his confident surrender into the arms of the Heavenly Father. ‘Let me go to the Father', these were - said those who were close to him - his last words, the accomplishment of a life that had been entirely aimed at seeing and contemplating the face of the Lord". News by - SIR - |
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