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Faith, hope and charity go together. Hope is practised through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failur… - Benedict XVI
" "Faith, hope and charity go together. Hope is practised through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness. Faith tells us that God has given his Son for our sakes and gives us the victorious certainty that it is really true: God is love! It thus transforms our impatience and our doubts into the sure hope that God holds the world in his hands and that, as the dramatic imagery of the end of the Book of Revelation points out, in spite of all darkness he ultimately triumphs in glory. Faith, which sees the love of God revealed in the pierced heart of Jesus on the Cross, gives rise to love. Love is the light — and in the end, the only light — that can always illuminate a world grown dim and give us the courage needed to keep living and working. Love is possible, and we are able to practise it because we are created in the image of God. To experience love and in this way to cause the light of God to enter into the world — this is the invitation I would like to extend with the present Encyclical.
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About Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI (born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger; 16 April 1927 – 1 January 2023) was a prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the head of the Church and the sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013. Benedict's election as pope occurred in the 2005 papal conclave that followed the death of Pope John Paul II on 2 April 2005. Benedict chose to be known by the title "pope emeritus" upon his resignation.
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Benedictus PP. XVI
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Pope Benedict XVI
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Josef Ratzinger
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Benedetto XVI
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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
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Joseph Alois Ratzinger
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Pope Benedictus XVI
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Benedictus XVI
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Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger
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Joseph Ratzinger
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If the Letter to the Hebrews treats the entire Passion as a prayer in which Jesus wrestles with God the Father and at the same time with human nature, it also sheds new light on the theological depth of the Mount of Olives prayer. For these cries and pleas are seen as Jesus’ way of exercising his high priesthood. It is through his cries, his tears, and his prayers that Jesus does what the high priest is meant to do: he holds up to God the anguish of human existence.
Como «Evangelio pneumático», el Evangelio de Juan no sólo proporciona una especie de transcripción taquigráfica de las palabras y del camino de Jesús, sino que, en virtud de la comprensión que se obtiene en el recordar, nos acompaña más allá del aspecto exterior hasta la profundidad de la palabra y de los acontecimientos, esa profundidad que viene de Dios y nos conduce a Él. El Evangelio es, como tal, «recuerdo», y eso significa: se atiene a la realidad que ha sucedido y no es una composición épica sobre Jesús, una alteración de los sucesos históricos. Más bien nos muestra verdaderamente a Jesús, tal como era y, precisamente de este modo, nos muestra a Aquel que no sólo era, sino que es; Aquel que en todos los tiempos puede decir en presente: «Yo soy». «Os aseguro que antes de que Abraham naciera, Yo soy» (Jn 8, 58). Este Evangelio nos muestra al verdadero Jesús, y lo podemos utilizar tranquilamente como fuente sobre Jesús.
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