Monday, June 18, 2012

The Hidden Treasure of Pope Ratzinger: The Homilies on Baptism

The latest from a few days ago, the fifteenth of the series. With a dazzling passage against the "pomp of the devil" that triumphs in the current mentality. A "spectacle" that every baptized person has promised to renounce 

by Sandro Magister


ROME, June 18, 2012 – It passed by almost unobserved by the general public. But the "lectio divina" that Benedict XVI held on the evening of June 11 at the basilica of Saint John Lateran, the cathedral of Rome, was one of the highest moments of that masterpiece which his homilies on Baptism are.

That Benedict XVI is destined to go down in history for his liturgical preaching, like Pope Leo the Great before him, is by now much more than just a reasonablee hypothesis.

But in the grand "corpus" of his homilies, those dedicated to Baptism have a place of unique significance.

Read more here: http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350270?eng=y

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