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this for me. He showed us
the way to a life,which,
active or passive, belongs
wholly to the work of God.
With these words at his last
General Audience, His Holiness
Benedict addressed us as
pilgrims on the journey to God:
At this moment my spirit
reaches out to embrace the
whole Church throughout
the world, and I thank God
for the ‘news’ that in these
years of Petrine ministry
I have been able to receive
regarding the faith in the
Lord Jesus Christ, and the
charity that circulates in
the body of the Church
– charity that makes the
Church to live in love –
and of the hope that opens
for us the way towards the
fullness of life, and directs
us towards the heavenly
homeland.
is given to the intellect
when the affections pass
entirely into God through
elevation. It is the place
beyond the pull and push
of sin and grace, beyond
the intellect and reason and
only reached through the
way of suffering to the soul’s
pure union with God, that
seventh and final abode as
described by the Carmelite
mystic and Doctor of the
Church, St. Teresa of Avila.
It is to this place that Our
Holy Father journeys now.
We too are spiritual
pilgrims, and gathered together
on the common journey to
union with God in Heaven, we
are the pilgrim people of God
and the Pilgrim Church. We
take great comfort in knowing
that our Holy Father Benedict
will continue to accompany
us on our pilgrimage with his
prayers.
With these words, His
Holiness concluded his public
farewell and chose the path
not travelled in over 600 years,
that path immortalized by the
American Poet Laureate Robert
Frost:
I shall be telling this
with a sigh Somewhere
ages and ages hence: Two
roads diverged in a wood,
and I, I took the one less
traveled by, And that has
made all the difference.
Thank You,
HOLY FATHER:
GOOD JOURNEY
When His Holiness
speaks of the last leg of his
pilgrimage, it summons
all of us to reflect upon
this spiritual pilgrimage
we share, its stages and
affections. The Franciscan
mystic St. Bonaventure
(+1274) wrote the Journey
of the Mind to God, and
pointed to its culmination
as a Mental and Mystical
Elevation, in which repose
4 // Fourth Sunday of Lent // March 10th, 2013