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In his agonizing cry ("My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"), Jesus is not despairing of God. He is enduring the crushing weight of the world’s blackest sin. He quoted Psalm 22 which begins in horror, but ends in hope. My latest at Aleteia. aleteia.org/2018/04/13/what-…
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“One who has hope lives differently” —Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI: The theme for our Summer issue of Evangelization & Culture, the Journal of the Word on Fire Institute. Get yours at wordonfire.institute/journal @WordOnFire
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The person who abandons himself totally in God's hands does not become God's puppet, a boring “yes man”; he does not lose his freedom. Only the person who entrusts himself totally to God finds true freedom, the great, creative immensity of the freedom of good. —Pope Benedict XVI
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The denial of the ethical principle, the denial of a capacity for insight that is antecedent to every specialization — that capacity of insight which we call “conscience” — is a denial of man. —Pope Benedict XVI
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Explore the vast spiritual & intellectual genius of Pope Benedict XVI. It will change your life. #popebenedictxvi
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[Jesus] knows me by name. I am not just some nameless being in the infinity of the universe. He knows me personally. Do I know him? —Pope Benedict XVI
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Pope Benedict XVI, Requiescat in Pace.
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Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think. —Pope Benedict XVI
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We suffer on account of God’s patience. And yet, we need his patience. God, who became a lamb, tells us that the world is saved by the Crucified One, not by those who crucified him. The world is redeemed by the patience of God. It is destroyed by the impatience of man. —PBXVI
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God is always faithful to his promises, but he often surprises us in the way he fulfills them. —Pope Benedict XVI
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Intellectuals are blind when it comes to their intellectual constructs. For this reason they could forswear every realism and continued fight for a system incapable of honoring its promises. —Pope Benedict XVI, “Truth & Freedom”
-Peter Seewald’s 4 booklength interviews -Tracey Rowland’s Ratzinger’s Faith -Emery de Gaal’s Christocentric Shift -Jesus of Nazareth trilogy -Spirit of the Liturgy. -September addresses (Regensburg, Paris, London & Berlin) -Dictatorship of Relativism homily #PBXVIreads
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Pope Benedict XVI retweeted
"An adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties." - Pope Benedict XVI
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“The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.” - Pope Benedict XVI
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“The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.” - Pope Benedict XVI
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“Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.” - Pope Benedict XVI #marchforlife2020
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