Vatican City, Oct 15, 2007 / 07:01 am
Yesterday at noon, Pope Benedict XVI appeared at the window of his study to pray the Angelus with thousands of pilgrims who had gathered below in St. Peter's Square. The Holy Father’s message for the Angelus was taken from Sunday’s Gospel reading. He told the crowd that true healing is found through salvation and that this kind of healing more than health, it is a new life.
The Pope commented on the cleansing of ten lepers, of whom just one, a Samaritan, returned to thank Jesus for having cured him. "Complete and radical healing is 'salvation'," said the Holy Father. "Everyday language itself, by distinguishing between 'health' and 'salvation,' helps us to understand that salvation is much more than health: it is, in fact, new, full and definitive life. Furthermore, here, as in other circumstances, Jesus uses the expression: 'your faith has made you well.'