CITY 'OF THE VATICAN - Often the man rather than build their lives on the "rock", "prefer the sands of ideologies, power, success and money, expecting to find the answer to the stability and irrepressible demand for happiness and fulfillment that you carry in your soul. " This was the warning issued by the Pope at the Angelus in St.
Peter's Square. Only the word of God, said Benedict XVI, it protects from a "superficial activism" that meets the 'pride' but 'leaves one empty and unfulfilled. " The reflection of the Pope departed from the place that the word of God must have in the lives of Christians. "When Jesus taught the people recognized in his words the same divine authority, he felt the nearness of the Lord, his merciful love, and give praise to God in every age and every place - said Pope Ratzinger - who has the grace to know Jesus, especially through the reading of the Gospels, I was fascinated, recognizing that in his preaching, his gestures, in his person he reveals the true face of God, and at the same time shows us to ourselves, we feel the joy of being children of the Father in heaven, telling us the solid foundation on which to build our lives.
" "But often the man - he observed Benedict XVI - does not build his act, his existence on this identity, and prefers the sands of power, success and money, expecting to find stability and response to suppressed demand of happiness and fulfillment that you carry in your soul. And we, on what we want to build our lives? Who can really respond to concerns of the human heart? "Christ is the rock of our lives." So the exhortation to the faithful: "May the Word of God permeates our whole life, thought and action.
Dear brothers I urge you to make room, every day, the Word of God, to nurture it, to meditate on it constantly. also a valuable aid in order to escape from a surface activity, which can meet for a moment the pride, but in the end leaves one empty and unfulfilled. " Libya and Pakistan. After the Angelus the Pope spoke for the first time on the war in Libya, publicly praying for the victims and asking them to help the populations affected by humanitarian crisis: "I follow consistently and with great concern the tensions of recent days in parts of ' Africa.
My heartfelt thoughts go to Libya, where recent fighting has caused many deaths and a growing humanitarian crisis. To all the victims and those who find themselves in distressing situations assure you of my prayers and my neighborhood, I invoke assistance and relief to those affected. "Benedict XVI also spoke of the assassination of Pakistani Catholic minister Shahbaz Bhatti has to reawaken the consciences to defend Christians and religious freedom: "I am following with great concern the time and the tensions that, in these days, there are several countries in Asia.
I ask the Lord Jesus that the sacrifice of moving the minister Shahbaz Bhatti Pakistan wake up consciences on the courage and commitment to protect the religious freedom of all men and, in doing so to promote their equal dignity. " 
Peter's Square. Only the word of God, said Benedict XVI, it protects from a "superficial activism" that meets the 'pride' but 'leaves one empty and unfulfilled. " The reflection of the Pope departed from the place that the word of God must have in the lives of Christians. "When Jesus taught the people recognized in his words the same divine authority, he felt the nearness of the Lord, his merciful love, and give praise to God in every age and every place - said Pope Ratzinger - who has the grace to know Jesus, especially through the reading of the Gospels, I was fascinated, recognizing that in his preaching, his gestures, in his person he reveals the true face of God, and at the same time shows us to ourselves, we feel the joy of being children of the Father in heaven, telling us the solid foundation on which to build our lives.
" "But often the man - he observed Benedict XVI - does not build his act, his existence on this identity, and prefers the sands of power, success and money, expecting to find stability and response to suppressed demand of happiness and fulfillment that you carry in your soul. And we, on what we want to build our lives? Who can really respond to concerns of the human heart? "Christ is the rock of our lives." So the exhortation to the faithful: "May the Word of God permeates our whole life, thought and action.
Dear brothers I urge you to make room, every day, the Word of God, to nurture it, to meditate on it constantly. also a valuable aid in order to escape from a surface activity, which can meet for a moment the pride, but in the end leaves one empty and unfulfilled. " Libya and Pakistan. After the Angelus the Pope spoke for the first time on the war in Libya, publicly praying for the victims and asking them to help the populations affected by humanitarian crisis: "I follow consistently and with great concern the tensions of recent days in parts of ' Africa.
My heartfelt thoughts go to Libya, where recent fighting has caused many deaths and a growing humanitarian crisis. To all the victims and those who find themselves in distressing situations assure you of my prayers and my neighborhood, I invoke assistance and relief to those affected. "Benedict XVI also spoke of the assassination of Pakistani Catholic minister Shahbaz Bhatti has to reawaken the consciences to defend Christians and religious freedom: "I am following with great concern the time and the tensions that, in these days, there are several countries in Asia.
I ask the Lord Jesus that the sacrifice of moving the minister Shahbaz Bhatti Pakistan wake up consciences on the courage and commitment to protect the religious freedom of all men and, in doing so to promote their equal dignity. "
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