{"id":2211,"date":"2007-04-04T09:50:58","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T09:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/04\/holy-week-audience.html"},"modified":"2007-04-04T09:50:58","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T09:50:58","slug":"holy-week-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/04\/holy-week-audience.html","title":{"rendered":"Holy Week Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"

At today’s General Audience:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Pascal mystery \u201cis not just a memorial to a past reality, it is a present reality: today, Christ\u2019s love continues to defeat sin and death\u201d. \u201cEvil does not have the last word\u201d and \u201cthe final triumph belongs to Christ\u201d.  Pope Benedict XVI re-proposed the \u201ccertainty\u201d on which \u201cour Christian existence is founded and built \u201d to a crowd of twenty thousand people present in St Peter\u2019s square for his general audience, on the vigil of the Easter Tridium, during which we rediscover space for silence and time for reflection, both greatly needed in a world filled with inflated words. <\/p>\n

The Pope says that today, Spy Wednesday, \u201cintroduces us to the dramatic atmosphere of the following days\u201d.  Benedict XVI outlined the Easter journey, starting from Mathew\u2019s account of the \u201cbrief exchange between Jesus and Judas during our Lord\u2019s last supper, following his words \u2018one of you will betray me\u2019\u201d. <\/p>\n

The Pope underscored that John closes the announcement of the betrayal with few words: \u201cit was night: when the traitor leaves the supper an interior darkness settles\u201d; \u201cdarkness of abandonment and of hate thickens\u201d, drawing us closer to \u201cthe supreme encounter between light and dark, life and death\u201d. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At today’s General Audience: The Pascal mystery \u201cis not just a memorial to a past reality, it is a present reality: today, Christ\u2019s love continues to defeat sin and death\u201d. \u201cEvil does not have the last word\u201d and \u201cthe final triumph belongs to Christ\u201d.  Pope Benedict XVI re-proposed the \u201ccertainty\u201d on which \u201cour Christian existence…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nHoly Week Audience - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/04\/holy-week-audience.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Holy Week Audience - 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