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Pope to Italian bishops: ‘We must bring the truth of God back into the world’
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.- Pope Benedict XVI has sent a message to the general assembly of the Italian Episcopal Conference reiterating the role of the bishops as educators and representatives of Christ on earth. The Pope also told the bishops, who are meeting in Assisi this week, what he had said in Aosta, Italy over the summer: "If our fundamental relationship with God is not living, if it is not lived, then none of our other relationships can take their correct form. If God is absent, we lack the compass ... to show us the path, the direction we must follow. “We must bring the truth of God back into the world, make Him known, make Him present.” The Holy Father then called upon the bishops to “become living adoration, a gift that changes the world and restores it to God.” Pope Benedict also touched on problems of division in Southern Italy as well as the new Italian edition of funeral rites, both of which are topics present on the Conference’s agenda. Subscriber comments:
Published by: Stephen
USA 11/10/2009 01:57 PM EST
Only with the truth of God will this world begin to flourish once again as God meant it to flourish when he created mankind and this world and the entire universe and beyond. As the Holy Father says, a world without God truly is a world without a compass to lead it in the right direction. Without God all you see is confusion and the loss of what is good and what is evil. Pope John Paul ll was correct when he stated many times during his Papacy that today's world has lost all sense of sin. We must encourage each other and our fellow neighbours to love one another and follow the path that always leads to God in this world but more importantly, in the next world which will never end. The prayer of St. Francis of Assisi is quite appropriate after this article. Lord make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred-let me sow love. Where there is injury-pardon. Where there is doubt-faith. Where there is despair-hope. Where there is darkness-light. Where there is sadness-joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled-as to console. To be understood-as to understand. To be loved-as to love. for It is in giving-that we receive. It is in pardoning-that we are pardoned. It is in dying-that we are born to eternal life. May a God of infinite goodness and mercy bless you all.
Published by: DLL
scituate Mass 11/10/2009 12:05 PM EST
The whole Church are living stones,people of faith, moving in a human community. The Church is not an inanimate building. The Church is animate as a body of Christ. The body of Christ makes God known among all peoples. Christ is the head of the Church and the window to the Divine Mind. The Divine Mind is worth submitting to. If every member of the Holy Catholic Church submits to God and the teachings of Christ and is obedient to the teachings of the Church, than those that don't believe will know that God is with us,because in obedience,we all demonstrate our love of God and one another. Faith is in the word that was made flesh but that word calls all to faith through obedience. Holy Mary Mother Of God we thank you for that special obedience that made the Incarnation possible!
Published by: Francis
Wareham Ma 11/10/2009 11:43 AM EST
The Pope said: “We must bring the truth of God back into the world, make Him known, make Him present.” I agree with the Pope. To do that, he will have to abandon the novelties of the last 40 to 50 years.
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