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Before the Angelus prayer on Sunday, recited by the window of his study above St. Peter's Square, Pope Benedict said, "St. James wrote about the value of perseverance and patience, the virtues of our fathers that are now less popular in a world that exalts change" Advent calls us instead to increase "tenacity that inner strength in the soul that enables us not to despair waiting for a good that is slow to come."
St. James gives the example of the farmer, the Pope added, the model of a mindset that combines a balanced faith and reason, because on the one hand, he knows the laws of nature and does his job well, and, on the other hand, he trusts in Providence.
If life make us feel lost, said Benedict XVI, we have a compass to find the direction that is the Word of God, announcing the real hope, the thing that does not disappoint because it is based on loyalty to God.
After the Angelus prayer the Pope greeted more than 2000 children who came with Roman statues of Baby Jesus for the traditional blessing of the "Baby Jesus".
Pope Benedict XVI has asked them to pray for him and his intentions "when you put the baby Jesus in a cave or stable."
St. James gives the example of the farmer, the Pope added, the model of a mindset that combines a balanced faith and reason, because on the one hand, he knows the laws of nature and does his job well, and, on the other hand, he trusts in Providence.
If life make us feel lost, said Benedict XVI, we have a compass to find the direction that is the Word of God, announcing the real hope, the thing that does not disappoint because it is based on loyalty to God.
After the Angelus prayer the Pope greeted more than 2000 children who came with Roman statues of Baby Jesus for the traditional blessing of the "Baby Jesus".
Pope Benedict XVI has asked them to pray for him and his intentions "when you put the baby Jesus in a cave or stable."
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