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At today’s GA:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The \u201cfast track to knowing God, is love\u201d, in reality \u201ceven among men and women true knowledge of another person can only be reached if you open your hearts\u201d: the deep meaning of prayer, \u2018our conversation with\u2019 and keeping the \u201cgaze of our hearts fixed on Christ.\u201d Was at the centre of Benedict XVI\u2019s general audience with over 20 thousand people.<\/p>\n

\"Rainypope\"<\/a> The audience was marked by a long and violent rainstorm, which filled St Peter\u2019s square with the colour of thousands of umbrellas, and which provoked a comment from the Pope himself. Smiling he said \u201cLet us take the rain as a blessing; there has been concerns over pending drought, so the Lord has sent us a sign of his grace\u201d.<\/p>\n

In his address the Pope continued in his reflections on the Fathers of the Early Church, returning once again to the figure of III century Origen, who he defined last week as being \u201cthe central figure in the development of Christian thought\u201d. Today, he underlined Origen\u2019s \u201ccurrent\u201d teachings on prayer and the Church, especially regarding the faithful\u2019s universal mission. \u201cA purity and honesty of life on the one hand, and on the other the faith and science of the scriptures \u2013 he said \u2013 are indispensable conditions for the universal mission, to an even greater extent the priestly mission and integrated conduct of life and study of the Word of God\u201d.   <\/p>\n

Benedict XVI said that in his life Origen affirmed and showed intellectual commitment and the search to God must be combined with prayer \u201che constantly intertwined his theological endeavours with prayer and oration\u201d. Origen maintained that \u201cknowledge of the Scriptures requires first and foremost intimacy with Christ and with prayer\u201d, because \u201conly by animated contact with Christ can one truly understand the Scriptures\u201d. Thus he shows that \u201cin order to understand God prayer is absolutely necessary\u201d. Benedict XVI also remembered that John Paul II wrote in Novo Millennio ineunte how \u201cprayer progresses the true and proper dialogue of love\u201d. \u201cWe must \u2013 he concluded – keep the \u201cgaze of our hearts\u201d fixed on the \u201cWisdom and Truth who is Jesus Christ\u201d. <\/p>\n

The pope also spoke of his upcoming trip to Brazil from May 9th through to 13th. Speaking to Spanish and Portuguese pilgrims he said \u201cI hope to be able to preside over the canonization of blessed Antonio of Sant\u2019Anna Galvao, and open the Fifth General conference of bishops from Latin American and the Caribbean\u201d. He also expressed the hope that there would be \u201cmany fruits\u201d from the assembly, so that \u201cso that all Christians may feel themselves true disciples of Christ, sent by him to evangelize their brethren, through the Divine word and the witness of their daily lives\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other patristics news, today is the feast day of St. Athanasius<\/a> – Mike Aquilina has links and comments:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s the feast of St. Athanasius, the Father of Orthodoxy, the man who stared the world down when it awoke to find itself Arian<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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