Ave Maria! The Holy Father asks us to go to the Holy Mother to find the model of Serenity and Peace.
The Holy Father said that Mary shows ‘the interior peace which we ought to have amid the sometimes tumultuous and confusing events of history.’
– Catholic News Agency
VATICAN CITY — Presiding at the Mass celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica on the occasion of the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, Pope Benedict XVI proposed Mary’s serenity as the source of interior peace and as the foundation for world peace.
In the first day of the year, in which the Church also commemorates the World Day of Peace — established by Pope Paul the VI in 1975 — the Holy Father said that Mary shows “the interior peace which we ought to have amid the sometimes tumultuous and confusing events of history, events whose meaning we often do not grasp and which disconcert us.”
Pope Benedict’s full homily follows:
Dear brothers and sisters,
“May God bless us and make his face to shine upon us.” We proclaimed these words from Psalm 66 after hearing in the first reading the ancient priestly blessing upon the people of the covenant. It is especially significant that at the start of every new year God sheds upon us, his people, the light of his Holy Name, the name pronounced three times in the solemn form of biblical blessing. Nor is it less significant that to the Word of God — who “became flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14) as “the true light that enlightens every man” (1:9) — is given, as today’s Gospel tells us, the name of Jesus eight days after his birth (Luke 2:21).
Read more
Pope Proposes Serenity of Mary as Model for Peace | Daily News | NCRegister.com.
