Erfurt, Germany, Sep 24, 2011 / 10:30 am
“Saints, even if there are only a few of them, change the world,” Pope Benedict XVI said to a congregation of over 50,000 in the German city of Erfurt on Sept. 24.
“The saints show us that it is truly possible and good to live our relationship with God in a radical way, to put him in first place, not as one concern among others,” observed the Pope during the open-air Mass in the city’s Domplatz, the Cathedral Square.
“The saints help us to see that God first reached out to us, he revealed and continues to reveal himself to us in Jesus Christ.”
The Pope’s comments come on the third day of his state visit to his homeland. He was particularly keen to highlight the life and legacy of the saints who had established the Christian Gospel in the Erfurt area.