The text of Pope Benedict’s address at his last audience yesterday:
Latest Posts  AnnunciationA couple of thousand years ago, a young Jewish woman was going about her normal morning routines, perhaps with a mixture of house and garden work, chatting with parents and neighbours, aware of the local drought, the sickness of a neighbour and annoyed by the neighbourhood’s lack of sleep caused by the Romans’ noisy party the night before, when God broke into her routine and entered her life in a new and powerful way.  the real centreOver the last month I have had the opportunity to work with many people across Aotearoa and further afield. In every retreat and seminar I have been with committed and faith-filled people who often feel as though they are on the periphery of the Church  the adventureIt’s easy to make the mistake of seeing life as a treadmill, day after day ups and downs, a movement through time from youth to old age, then death and beyond.  the bigger pictureOver the years, and even in recent months, weeks and days, I’ve prayed many prayers which have not been answered as I had hoped.  moving watersBible questions still pop up regularly in quiz shows and they often cost otherwise sharp players much needed points. |
