Thursday, April 12, 2012

Pope Benedict's Easter Messages

The SJD reading group will not be meeting over the summer months, but we will have one final meeting on April 15th, 2012 to wrap up the year. We will keep it simple and read our Holy Father's Easter homilies and addresses (links below).  From his Urbi et Orbi ("to the city and the world"):

"Every Christian relives the experience of Mary Magdalene. It involves an encounter which changes our lives: the encounter with a unique Man who lets us experience all God’s goodness and truth, who frees us from evil not in a superficial and fleeting way, but sets us free radically, heals us completely and restores our dignity. This is why Mary Magdalene calls Jesus “my hope”: he was the one who allowed her to be reborn, who gave her a new future, a life of goodness and freedom from evil. “Christ my hope” means that all my yearnings for goodness find in him a real possibility of fulfilment: with him I can hope for a life that is good, full and eternal, for God himself has drawn near to us, even sharing our humanity."


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