The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness - Benedict XVI

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The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness

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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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Native Name: Benedictus PP. XVI
Alternative Names: Pope Benedict XVI Josef Ratzinger Benedetto XVI Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Joseph Alois Ratzinger Pope Benedictus XVI Benedictus XVI Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger Joseph Ratzinger

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Iconographic tradition has theologically interpreted the manger and the swaddling cloths in terms of the theology of the Fathers. The child stiffly wrapped in bandages is seen as prefiguring the hour of his death: from the outset, he is the sacrificial victim, as we shall see more closely when we examine the reference to the first-born. The manger, then, was seen as a kind of altar.

Finally, it has become increasingly clear to me that God is not, let’s say, a ruling power, a distant force; rather he is love and he loves me – and as such, life should be guided by him, by this power called love.

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La respuesta de Jesús al Buen Ladrón va más allá de la petición. En lugar de un futuro indeterminado habla de un «hoy»: «Hoy estarás conmigo en el paraíso» (Lc 23,43) También estas palabras están llenas de misterio, pero nos enseñan ciertamente una cosa: Jesús sabía que entraba directamente en comunión con el Padre, que podía prometer el paraíso ya para «hoy». Sabía que reconduciría al hombre al paraíso del cual había sido privado: a esa comunión con Dios en la cual reside la verdadera salvación del hombre.
Así, en la historia de la espiritualidad cristiana, el buen ladrón se ha convertido en la imagen de la esperanza, en la certeza consoladora de que la misericordia de Dios puede llegarnos también en el último instante; la certeza de que, incluso después de una vida equivocada, la plegaria que implora su bondad no es vana. «Tú que escuchaste al ladrón, también a mí me diste esperanza», reza, por ejemplo, el Dies irae.

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