Aug 17, 2011 / 10:21 am
Pope Benedict used his Aug. 17 general audience to reflect on Mary's example of prayer and meditation, just before he travels to Madrid to celebrate World Youth Day with over 1 million young people.
“In our time, we are absorbed by many activities and duties, worries, problems,” he said.
“Mary teaches us how necessary it is to find in our days, with all of its activities, moments to gather our thoughts in silence and meditate on what the Lord wants to teach us, on how he is present and acts in the world and in our life.”
At his summer residence in Castel Gandalfo, the Pope reflected on the passage from Luke’s Gospel that says Mary observed events in her son Jesus' life, “kept all of these things, and pondered them in her heart.”