Cotonou, Benin, Nov 18, 2011 / 18:08 pm
Pope Benedict XVI urged the people of Benin to seek Jesus Christ through the intercession and example of his mother Mary.
“She shows us, with simplicity and with a mother’s heart, the one Light and Truth: her Son, Jesus Christ who leads humanity to its full realization in the Father,” said the Pope in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mercy in Benin’s largest city of Cotonou Nov. 18.
“Let us not be afraid to invoke, with confidence, her who ceaselessly dispenses to her children abundant divine graces.”
The cathedral visit was the Pope’s first stop after touching down in Benin. After arriving at the packed church, he prayed at the tombs of two previous bishops of Cotonou—Archbishop Christoph Adimou and Archbishop Isidore de Sousa.