Pope Benedict

It is hard to believe everything that is happening with Pope Benedict - his news of stepping down this month was shocking, to put it mildly. We are especially thinking of him today while keeping him and the Church in prayers. The next month will be most interesting.  Right now, this is the the bookmark I am using in my Lenten reading, "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas A Kempis. Benedict truly is a holy man, we will miss him as our leader.

"And only where God is seen does life truly begin. Only when we meet the living God in Christ do we know what life is. We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary. There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ. There is nothing more beautiful than to know him and to speak to others of our friendship with him." - Benedict XVI