{"id":3273,"date":"2005-08-28T08:33:40","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T08:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/angelus-6.html"},"modified":"2005-08-28T08:33:40","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T08:33:40","slug":"angelus-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/angelus-6.html","title":{"rendered":"Angelus"},"content":{"rendered":"

The text of the Pope’s address today:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Not only youth, but communities and their pastors also, should take note of a fact which is fundamental for evangelization: where God does not take first place, where he is not recognized and worshipped as the Supreme Good, human dignity is undermined. This is why it is urgent to lead mankind today to \u2018discover\u2019 the true face of God revealed to us in Jesus Christ. In this way, even mankind of our time will be able, as the Magi did, to prostrate themselves before him and worship him. As I talked to German bishops, I recalled that adoration is not \u2018a luxury but a priority\u2019. Searching for Christ must be the incessant craving of believers, of youth and adults, of the faithful and their pastors. This search should be encouraged, sustained and guided. Faith is not simply adherence to a set of dogmas complete in itself, which would suppress the thirst for God present in the human soul. On the contrary, it projects man on a journey in time towards a God who is always new in his infiniteness. So the Christian is at the same time one who seeks and one who finds. It is precisely this which makes the Church young, open to the future, rich in hope for all humanity. <\/p>\n

St Augustine, whose memory we mark today, makes some stupendous reflections about the invitation in Psalm 104, \u2018Quaerite faciem eius semper<\/em> \u2013 Seek always his face\u2019. He notes that this invitation is valid not only for this life: it applies also to eternity. The discovery of the \u2018face of God\u2019 is never exhausted. The more we enter into the splendour of divine love, the more beautiful it is to proceed with the search, so that \u2018amore crescente inquisitio crescat inventi<\/em> \u2013 in the measure in which love grows, the search for He who has been found grows\u2019. (Enarr. in Ps. 104,3: CCL 40, 1537).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s a different definition of seeker<\/em>, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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