Vatican City, Nov 22, 2005 / 22:00 pm
In today’s general audience, Pope Benedict XVI explained to a large number of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square that the through Christ, “the work of God the Father is revealed and accomplished.
Having spent many of his recent audiences teaching about the Psalms, the Holy Father today, shifted his attention to the opening canticle of St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians, “God the Savior”, calling it a “constant stream of praise rising up to God.”
Benedict said that the canticle belongs to the category of "blessings that appear in the Old Testament and that were further spread by the Jewish tradition."
Noting that in the Christian faith, God is “celebrated as 'Father of our Lord Jesus Christ’, the Pope said that “in our hymn of praise, the central figure is that of Christ, in Whom the work of…the Father is revealed and accomplished."