Pope Benedict XVI retirement caused Catholics world wide to feel a sense of abandonment and loss. Please do not look at it as such. After you view the video provided here and listen to the wise words of Cardinal Francis Arinze and then read the final words of Pope Benedict XVI as reported in the
L’O S S E RVATOR E ROMANO (below) you will come to a clearer understanding in terms of Pope Benedicts XVI choice to retire in addition it will give you the comfort and strength to forge onward as you continue to serve our Lord Jesus Christ. As Paul teaches in Galatian 6:9 we must never get tired of doing good.
Benn Swett teaches Know that Christ founded a gathering of people who he graced to be a loving community until the end of time, sustained always by the Holy Spirit, the principal agent of the Church's mission. The community founded by Christ subsists in the roman Catholic Church, which is Jesus' vehicle to lead al men of good will so that there may be one Church and one Shepherd. the Church herself and all her members are on a pilgrimage that will be completed in the fullness of time. This pilgrimage is aided by Scripture and oral Tradition. To guarantee that His Church would always lead in the way of truth, Christ protected the oral Tradition and sent the Holy Spirit to guide the pope in his proclamations regarding faith and morals.
God Bless you and keep you always. Blessed be God forever.
Anne-Marie
BENEDICTUS PP XVI
following is the English translation
of his words.
Dear Brothers,
I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer
suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the barque of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is. Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.
From the Vatican, 10 February 2013
http://www.vatican.va/news_services/or/or_eng/007w01.pdf
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