... pastor just found out about it. From 28 June 2008 to 29 June 2009, the Christian church was supposed to celebrate a commemorative year dedicated to St. Paul, partly to mark the approximately 2000th anniversary of the saint’s birth. Pope Benedict XVI, who proclaimed this special jubilee year and invited the Orthodox and Protestants to join in its celebration, hoped that the “Year of Paul” would inspire others to similar missionary zeal and spirit of sacrifice. In his sermon establishing this “Year ...
... Repentance is nothing more than a hatred of sin, not liking where we are headed with our selfishness and acquisitiveness. That’s all God wants. And the good news is that we don’t even have to do it. God’s love, God’s grace, does it for us. Pope Benedict XVI spoke profoundly on this matter, on how any change in our lives is the result of grace: He [God] has loved us first, and he continues to do so; we too, then, can respond with love... He loves us, he makes us see and experience his love, and since ...
