Benedict XVI: Jesus is known above all by the heart

by | Mar 30, 2010 | News, Video

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Young person: “The Gospel says that Jesus looked at the young man and loved him. Holy Father, what does it mean to be looked at with love by Jesus; how can we also have this experience today? But is it truly possible to live this experience even in today’s world?”Benedict XVI: “A person can not learn the same way in which I can study math, for math, reason is necessary and is sufficient, but to know a person, above all the great person, Jesus, the God- man, we need reason, but at the same time also the heart. Only with the opening of the heart for Him alone, together knowing what he said, what he did, with our love, with our movement towards him, can we increasingly know Him and so experience being lo …

Pope: Jesus the right path for becoming truly human

by | Mar 30, 2010 | News, Video

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Being a Christian means to consider the path of Jesus Christ as the correct path to be human and to use it to reach the goal of fully realized and authentic humanity. Pope Benedict was speaking this morning, Palm Sunday, during his homily at Mass. Speaking to the 50,000 faithful, many of them young people celebrating diocesan World Youth Day, the Pope said It ‘s a path to the true summit of being human.