TRIBUTE TO POPE BENEDICT XVI
2,408 views · Published 14 February 2013 · 3:28 · Indexed 12 November 2026
Channel: francisxcc · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism
A small tribute to a great man, a humble, simple, brave and faithful servant of God and of His Church. We Catholics owe him such an immense debt of gratitude for all that he has done for us, despite all the challenges he has had to face, not least of all from his own old age, illness and frailty. Thanks be to God! Feel free to add a comment expressing your good wishes to him. Should there be a good number of these, I'll try to find a way to forward the link to this video to his secretary/assistant (anyone have any ideas how?), so that he can enjoy reading your kind messages once he has retired. For anyone who might have difficulty reading the quotes from the Pope in the video, they are: "The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about the person of Jesus Christ." "The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good." "When human affairs are so ordered that there is no recognition of God, there is a belittling of man. That is why, in the final analysis, worship and law cannot be completely separated from each other." "The tests to which modern society subjects Christians, indeed, are many, and affect both personal and social life." "Dear brothers and sisters after the great Pope, John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble worker in the Lord's vineyard." "Christ offers more! Indeed he offers everything! Only He who is the Truth can be the Way and hence also the Life." "False 'gods' are nearly always associated with the worship of three things: material possessions, possessive love, or power."
