Benedict XVI - Church Alive

Quotables:

Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every o...
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved y...
The Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot. -- St. Augustine of ...
Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. -- St. Jerome...
The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise. -- St. Clement of Alexand...
The proof of love is in the works. -- Pope St. Gregory the Great...
I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to u...
Do not be troubled by Bernard's saying that "Hell is full of good wishes or...
Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, ...
Hell is full of the talented, but Heaven of the energetic. -- St. Jeanne de...
He Who is the beginning and the end, the ruler of the angels, made Himself ...
The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, a...
About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, an...
If I am not [in God's grace], may it please God to put me in it; if I am, m...
At the end of life, we shall be judged by love. -- San Juan de la Cruz...
From silly devotions and sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us! -- St. T...
If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number ...
If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yours...
In the heart of the Church, my Mother, I shall be Love! -- St. Therese of t...
I told our Lord that I knew it was His cross that was now being placed upon...
Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven. -- Pope St. Pius X...
I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. This is a rosar...
When you look at the Crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you then...
The Church is alive and we are seeing it: we are experiencing the joy that ...
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and halleluj...
Why should you worry whether God wants you to reach the Heavenly home by wa...

The Church is alive and we are seeing it: we are experiencing the joy that the Risen Lord promised His followers. The Church is alive--She is alive because Christ is alive, because He is truly risen. In the suffering that we saw on the Holy Father's face in those days of Easter, we contemplated the mystery of Christ's Passion and we touched His wounds. But throughout these days we have also been able, in a profound sense, to touch the Risen One. We have been able to experience the joy that He promised, after a brief period of darkness, as the fruit of His resurrection. -- Pope Benedict XVI