The Visit From Our Pastor

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Much has been and will be written about the visit of our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, to the United States of America, his homilies and addresses. To this revert, I am being introduced to this man who is mine and a billion other’s pastor. I found him to be intelligent, firm, and precise in his language. There is a gentleness to him that did not expect (he was called at one time the Vatican’s ‘enforcer’.
Good leaders will make you WANT to follow because his words bring a conviction that melts away personal selfishness. I see this attribute in Benedict XVI.
He is orthodox and I believe will start the process of bringing the Church back to the foundation on which it is built. We might not see it in our lifetime, but history will record Benedict to be a great Pope.
I believe it is imperative that Catholics everywhere remember our German Shepard in our daily prayers. For he is our pastor, and is the successor of Saint Peter. As Augustine wrote:
"If the very order of episcopal succession is to be considered, how much more surely, truly, and safely do we number them from Peter himself, to whom, as to one representing the whole Church, the Lord said, ‘Upon this rock I will build my Church’ . . . [Matt. 16:18]. Peter was succeeded by Linus, Linus by Clement, Clement by Anacletus, Anacletus by Evaristus . . . " (Letters 53:1:2 A.D. 412).
 
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Much has been and will be written about the visit of our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, to the United States of America, his homilies and addresses. To this revert, I am being introduced to this man who is mine and a billion other’s pastor. I found him to be intelligent, firm, and precise in his language. There is a gentleness to him that did not expect (he was called at one time the Vatican’s ‘enforcer’.
Good leaders will make you WANT to follow because his words bring a conviction that melts away personal selfishness. I see this attribute in Benedict XVI.
He is orthodox and I believe will start the process of bringing the Church back to the foundation on which it is built. We might not see it in our lifetime, but history will record Benedict to be a great Pope.
I believe it is imperative that Catholics everywhere remember our German Shepard in our daily prayers. For he is our pastor, and is the successor of Saint Peter. As Augustine wrote:
"If the very order of episcopal succession is to be considered, how much more surely, truly, and safely do we number them from Peter himself, to whom, as to one representing the whole Church, the Lord said, ‘Upon this rock I will build my Church’ . . . [Matt. 16:18]. Peter was succeeded by Linus, Linus by Clement, Clement by Anacletus, Anacletus by Evaristus . . . " (Letters 53:1:2 A.D. 412).
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Do you mean you are actually going to meet him?

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God bless,
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Much has been and will be written about the visit of our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, to the United States of America, his homilies and addresses. To this revert, I am being introduced to this man who is mine and a billion other’s pastor. I found him to be intelligent, firm, and precise in his language. There is a gentleness to him that did not expect (he was called at one time the Vatican’s ‘enforcer’.
Good leaders will make you WANT to follow because his words bring a conviction that melts away personal selfishness. I see this attribute in Benedict XVI.
He is orthodox and I believe will start the process of bringing the Church back to the foundation on which it is built. We might not see it in our lifetime, but history will record Benedict to be a great Pope.
I believe it is imperative that Catholics everywhere remember our German Shepard in our daily prayers. For he is our pastor, and is the successor of Saint Peter. As Augustine wrote:
"If the very order of episcopal succession is to be considered, how much more surely, truly, and safely do we number them from Peter himself, to whom, as to one representing the whole Church, the Lord said, ‘Upon this rock I will build my Church’ . . . [Matt. 16:18]. Peter was succeeded by Linus, Linus by Clement, Clement by Anacletus, Anacletus by Evaristus . . . " (Letters 53:1:2 A.D. 412).
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I could not agree with you more. I just finished re-reading St. Cyprian’s famous treatise “The Unity of the Catholic Church” the basic purpose of which was to prove that the unity of the universal Church, founded on Peter, was incompatible with a competitive hierarchy.
 
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