VATICAN - Benedict XVI attends concert "Resurrexi": “For every believer and for every ecclesial community what is important is the encounter with Jesus Christ crucified and risen ”

Thursday, 24 May 2007

Vatican City (Fides Service) - “This evening of music was an opportunity to meditate on the central event of our faith: the Resurrection of Christ… Easter is the heart of Christianity. For every believer and for every ecclesial community what is important is the encounter with Jesus Christ crucified and risen. Without this personal and community experience, without intimate friendship with Jesus, faith remains superficial and sterile”. With these words Pope Benedict XVI addressed those who with him attended a concert in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican in the afternoon of 23 May for the execution of the Sacred Oratory Resurrexi, offered to the Pope by the Italian Bishops' Conference, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday and as the crowning moment of the ad limina visit which the Italian Bishops have just completed. The Pope thanked those who “promoted and prepared the magnificent performance ” of the Oratory, which he said he hope would “strengthen our faith. The Passover of Christ anticipates the new life of the risen world: if we are firmly convinced of this consequently more conscious will be our witness to the Gospel and for ardent our apostolic zeal.” (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 24/5/2007; righe 14, parole 197)


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