Thursday, January 5, 2023

Well done, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

Jesus: "Well done, my good and faithful servant" (Matthew 25:21).
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: "I love you, Jesus."

"For I am already being poured out like a libation, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith. From now on the crown of righteousness awaits me, which the Lord, the just judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me, but to all who have longed for his appearance" (2 Timothy 4:6-8).

"May his face, for which the light of this world has been extinguished, be forever illuminated by the true light, which has in You the inexhaustible source" (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI).



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