Vatican
City, 23 February 2013
(VIS) – Benedict XVI, in an apostolic letter, thanked Cardinal
Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture,
for his preaching during the Lenten retreat.
“You
have offered us,” the Holy Father writes, “a fascinating journey
through the Psalms, following a double path: ascending and
descending. The Psalms, in fact, are fundamentally oriented toward
the face of God, toward the mystery in which the human mind gets
lost, but the very Word of God allows us to see according to the
different profiles in which God reveals himself. At the same time, in
the light that shine from the face of God, praying the Psalms allows
us to see the face of humanity, to recognize the truth of human joy
and sorrow, human anguish and hope.”
“In
this way, … the Word of God, mediated by the ancient and ever-new
'ars orandi' of the Jewish people and the Church, has allowed us to
renew the 'ars credendi': a need that is highlighted by the Year of
Faith and is even more necessary in this particular moment that I,
personally, and the Apostolic See are living. Peter's successor and
his collaborators are called to give the Church and the world a clear
testimony of faith, and this is only possible thanks to a deep and
abiding immersion in dialogue with God. Many today are asking: Who
will show us what is good? We can answer, those who reflect God's
light and face with their lives.”
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