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And then, for the Benedict XVI fans out there............
In the days following your election, you gave me several opportunities to confirm that you are the same person I had known closely, always looking to be different: you asked for different shoes, a different ring, a different Cross, a different chair and even room and home different from the rest of the Popes who had been humbly content with existing things, without the need of "special" things for themselves.
In those days I was trying to recover from the immense pain felt by the resignation of my beloved and much admired Pope Benedict XVI, with whom I identified from the beginning in an extreme way, for the clarity of his teachings (he is the best teacher in the world), for his fidelity to the Sacred Liturgy, for his courage in defending sound doctrine amid the enemies of the Church and for a thousand other things I will not enumerate. With him at the helm of the Barque of Peter I felt I was standing on firm ground. And with his resignation, I felt the ground disappearing beneath my feet, but I understood it, because the winds were really stormy and the papacy something too rough for his strength, now diminished by age, in the terrible and violent culture war being waged.
What a nice litany this would make:
For my beloved and much-admired Pope Benedict XVI,
What immense pain I felt, upon my hearing of your resignation!
O, my beloved and much-admired Pope Benedict XVI,
With whom I identified from the beginning in an extreme way!
O, my Pope Benedict XVI, beloved and much-admired
For the clarity of your teachings!
O, my beloved Pope Benedict XVI, the best teacher in the world:
Admired for your fidelity to the Sacred Liturgy,
And for your courage in defending sound doctrine!
For you have defended sound doctrine amidst the enemies of the Church!
And you are beloved and much-admired for a thousand other things!
So MANY things, they're just, just, just, TOO NUMEROUS to mention! :faint:
With you at the helm of the Barque of Peter,
I felt I was standing on firm ground!
And with your resignation,
I felt the ground disappearing beneath my feet!
But I understood it, because the winds were really stormy,
And the papacy was something too rough for your strength;
For now you are diminished by age:
In the terrible and violent culture war being waged.
(Don't you just want to print this up and go out to have it framed?? poche??)
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Topic: Appeal to the Pope (Read 5415 times)