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General audience, Benedict XVI again illustrates the great figures of the Christian Middle Ages, and speaks of Saint Odo of Cluny. “Divine mercy is always available", because “ God is pursuing the sins and protects sinners”, provided that can say no to the vices of the world. “The absurdity” of the Second World War.
Vatican City (AsiaNews) - At a time like present one of great moral fragility, the goodness of God, his “mercy is always available,” because “God pursues the sins and yet he protects sinners” provided that can say no to the vices of the world and have the courage to radically change their life. There is need for “a radical change of life based on humility, austerity, detachment from the ephemeral and adherence to the eternal” Benedict XVI said today in his general audience – which this week returned to the Paul VI in front of about eight thousand people - during which he resumed after the summer break, his series of catechesis on the great writers of the early Church. During the audience, Benedict XVI also denounced “the absurdity” of the Second World War and prayed that the “spirit of forgiveness and peace pervade the hearts of men."
Looking back at the great figures of the medieval Church of the East and West, today the Pope proposed the teaching of a French monk, Saint’ Odo, Abbot of Cluny. He was born in 880 and died in 942. From his example “we understand what it means to be Christian”; “Harmony between kings and princes, observance of the commandments, attention to the poor, the improvement of the young, respect for the old”, in addition to “the virtues of patience”, were the “great aspirations” of Odo , who in 927 became the second abbot of Cluny. This became a centre of spiritual life which “was to have a great influence on the monasteries of the Continent” thanks to the "amazing spread across Europe of a lifestyle and spirituality inspired by the Rule of St. Benedict”. Odo was in Rome, Subiaco and Monte Cassino.
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Vatican City (AsiaNews) - At a time like present one of great moral fragility, the goodness of God, his “mercy is always available,” because “God pursues the sins and yet he protects sinners” provided that can say no to the vices of the world and have the courage to radically change their life. There is need for “a radical change of life based on humility, austerity, detachment from the ephemeral and adherence to the eternal” Benedict XVI said today in his general audience – which this week returned to the Paul VI in front of about eight thousand people - during which he resumed after the summer break, his series of catechesis on the great writers of the early Church. During the audience, Benedict XVI also denounced “the absurdity” of the Second World War and prayed that the “spirit of forgiveness and peace pervade the hearts of men."
Looking back at the great figures of the medieval Church of the East and West, today the Pope proposed the teaching of a French monk, Saint’ Odo, Abbot of Cluny. He was born in 880 and died in 942. From his example “we understand what it means to be Christian”; “Harmony between kings and princes, observance of the commandments, attention to the poor, the improvement of the young, respect for the old”, in addition to “the virtues of patience”, were the “great aspirations” of Odo , who in 927 became the second abbot of Cluny. This became a centre of spiritual life which “was to have a great influence on the monasteries of the Continent” thanks to the "amazing spread across Europe of a lifestyle and spirituality inspired by the Rule of St. Benedict”. Odo was in Rome, Subiaco and Monte Cassino.
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