This morning in Rome, at the conclusion of the Spiritual Exercises which have been taking place this week at the Casa Divin Maestro in Aricola, the Holy Father expressed gratitude to the Preacher of the retreat, Abbot Bernardo Francesco Maria Gianni, OSB, Oliv., from the Abby of San Miniato al Monte.
I would like to thank you, brother Bernardo, for your help during these days. I was struck by your work to help us enter, as the Word did, into our own humanity; to understand that God always makes himself present in a human way. He did this the first time in the incarnation of the Word, totally, but He is also present in the traces he leaves in our humanity. Equal to the incarnation of the Word - undivided and clearly -, he is there. And our work is perhaps to go on ...
I thank you so much for this work. I thank you for having spoken about memory: this deuteronomic dimension which we forget; for having spoken to us about hope, about work, about patience, and for pointing out the way for us to keep the memory of the future which always carries us forward. Thank you!
You made me laugh when you said that someone, reading the titles of the meditations, perhaps did not understand what the Curia does: maybe they arranged for a tourist guide to help them visit Florence and to know its poets ... During the first meditation, even I was a bit disoriented, then I understood the message. Thank you.
I thought a lot about one of the Consular documents - about Gaudium et Spes - maybe this was the document that has been most resisted, even today. And at this moment I saw you in this way: with the courage of the Council Fathers when they signed that document. Thank you very much. Pray for us, we are all sinners, all of us, but we want to keep going, in service to the Lord. Thank you very much and please greet the monks for me and on behalf of all of us. Thank you!
Original text in Italian
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Greetings of His Holiness, Pope Francis
I would like to thank you, brother Bernardo, for your help during these days. I was struck by your work to help us enter, as the Word did, into our own humanity; to understand that God always makes himself present in a human way. He did this the first time in the incarnation of the Word, totally, but He is also present in the traces he leaves in our humanity. Equal to the incarnation of the Word - undivided and clearly -, he is there. And our work is perhaps to go on ...
I thank you so much for this work. I thank you for having spoken about memory: this deuteronomic dimension which we forget; for having spoken to us about hope, about work, about patience, and for pointing out the way for us to keep the memory of the future which always carries us forward. Thank you!
You made me laugh when you said that someone, reading the titles of the meditations, perhaps did not understand what the Curia does: maybe they arranged for a tourist guide to help them visit Florence and to know its poets ... During the first meditation, even I was a bit disoriented, then I understood the message. Thank you.
I thought a lot about one of the Consular documents - about Gaudium et Spes - maybe this was the document that has been most resisted, even today. And at this moment I saw you in this way: with the courage of the Council Fathers when they signed that document. Thank you very much. Pray for us, we are all sinners, all of us, but we want to keep going, in service to the Lord. Thank you very much and please greet the monks for me and on behalf of all of us. Thank you!
Original text in Italian
Texto in español
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