VATICAN - Wednesday Audience: the Pope continues teaching on Psalms and Canticles “Nations must learn to 'read' in history a message from God. The human adventure is not confused and meaningless … it is possible to discern God’s hidden intervention in history”

Vatican City (Fides Service) - “History is not in the hands of dark forces, of chance, or of merely human choices," "The Lord, supreme arbiter of historical events, rises above the discharge of evil energies, the vehement onslaught of Satan, the emergence of plagues and wickedness. He knowingly guides history to the dawn of the new heaven and the new earth”. In today's general audience, held in St. Peter's Square, the Holy Father Benedict XVI greeted some 17,000 people present and then spoke on the canticle of chapter 15, verses 3 and 4, of the Book of Revelation: "Hymn of adoration and praise." The catechesis was one prepared by John Paul II.
The Pope explained that Canticle subject of the day’s meditation is chanted by “the just of history …those who through the seeming defeat of martyrdom are in reality the builders of the new world, with God the supreme architect." The intention of this canticle, the Pope said, "is to reaffirm that God is not indifferent to human affairs, but penetrates them creating His 'ways,' in other words His projects and His efficacious 'works'". God’s intervention is a sign which calls all the peoples of the earth to conversion. “Nations must learn to 'read' in history a message from God. The human adventure is not confused and meaningless, nor is it hopelessly condemned to the prevarication of the domineering and the perverse.".”
In the Canticle fear (in the biblical sense, of recognition of the transcendence of God) and glorification of God are combined: “Thanks to fear of the Lord, one is not afraid of the evil raging through history and can vigorously resume the road of life”. "The hymn closes by foreseeing a universal procession of peoples, who will present themselves before the Lord of history," Whom they will adore. "And the one Lord and Saviour seems to repeat the words pronounced on the last evening of His earthly life: 'Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world'!»”. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 11/5/2005, righe 23, parole 431)