VATICAN - The pope encourages all the faithful “to rediscover the beauty of being baptised” and recalls the earthquake in Haiti and the commitment to religious freedom
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “I would like to encourage all the faithful to rediscover the beauty of being baptised and belonging to the great family of God, and to give joyful witness of their faith, that they may generate good and harmonious fruits,” urged the Holy Father Benedict XVI during the Angelus prayer, Sunday, 9 January, the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, after having administered the Sacrament of Baptism to 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel. “This mystery of Christ's life,” explained the Pope, “visibly shows that his coming in the flesh is the sublime act of love of the Three Divine Persons. We can say that from this solemn event, the creative, redemptive and sanctifying action of the Holy Trinity will be increasingly manifested in the public mission of Jesus in his teaching, miracles, in his Passion, death and Resurrection.”
Pope Benedict XVI recalled that the Messiah, the Son of the Most High, “coming out of the waters of the Jordan, establishes the regeneration in the Spirit and opens, to all who want it, the opportunity to become children of God. Not by chance, in fact, every baptised acquires the character of a child beginning with the Christian name, an unmistakable sign that the Holy Spirit gives birth 'again' to man from the womb of the Church,” and finally revealing that “Baptism is the be
After reciting the Angelus, the Holy Father recalled Haiti, the commitment to religious freedom and greeted the faithful Copts. These are his words: “In the context of the Marian prayer, I would like to reserve a special mention to the people of Haiti, one year after the terrible earthquake, which unfortunately has been followed by a serious outbreak of cholera. Cardinal Robert Sarah, President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, goes to the Caribbean island today to express my constant closeness and that of the whole Church. I greet the group of Italian Members of Parliament present here, and I thank them for their commitment, shared with other colleagues in favour of religious freedom. With them I also greet the faithful Copts here, renewing my closeness.”
(SL) (Agenzia Fides 10/01/2011)
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