segunda-feira, 15 de agosto de 2011

Pope Benedict XVI marks Feast of the Assumption in Castel Gandolfo

 
Pope Benedict XVI, center, flanked by Vatican Secretary of State cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, left, and bishop Marcello Semeraro, greets the faithful as he arrives to celebrate a mass in San Tommaso da Villanova's church, at his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, in the outskirts of Rome, Monday, Aug. 15, 2011.
 

The Feast of the Assumption is celebrated by Christians of East and West, and for the Catholic Church, the dogma of the Assumption was proclaimed in 1950. Pope Benedict XVI called these things to mind in his remarks to the faithful ahead of the angelus prayer at noon on Monday, the Feast of the Assumption, telling the faithful that in Mary we see the goal towards which all people are making their way, who know how to bind their lives to Jesus’ own, who know how to follow Him as Mary did. “This feast,” he said, “speaks therefore of our future: it tells us that we too will be with Jesus in the joy of God and invites us to have courage, to believe that the power of the Resurrection of Christ can work in us as well, and make us men and women who every day try to live as resurrected, carrying  ...»

Pope Benedict XVI's Sunday Angelus

"We nourish our faith every day, with deep listening to the Word of God, with the celebration of the Sacraments, with personal prayer and charity towards our neighbor." These were some of the words of Pope Benedict XVI to the faithful gathered in the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace in Castel Gandolfo, for the Angelus prayer this Sunday. The Holy Father was commenting on the day’s Gospel reading, in which a Canaanite woman with faith asks Jesus to heal her daughter.

"Faith,”  ...»