Wisdom from Joseph Ratzinger

 
 
 

For each individual, suffering is always something alien. It can never be tamed. That is why it is hard to bear, and harder still—as certain great witnesses of Christ’s holiness have done—to welcome it as a significant element in our vocation, or to accept, as Bernadette expressed it, to ‘suffer everything in silence in order to please Jesus’.

—Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)

from his book, Signs of New Life: Homilies on the Church’s Sacraments

 

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VISIBLE SIGNS OF INVISIBLE GRACE

In this collection of homilies, Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) explains the sacraments of the Church and shows how they always offer an opportunity to announce our faith in Christ and to deepen our understanding of it. Ratzinger endeavored as a theologian to develop an understanding of the sacraments that would help to make participation in them, and in the Paschal Mystery, more fruitful.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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