A collection of private sermons by Pope Benedict XVI will be published next year. The exact release date of the publication has not yet been announced.
According to Catholic News Service (CNS), the Vatican publishing house LEV announced on December 23 that it plans to publish a book “comprising approximately 130 sermons delivered by the late Pope Benedict XVI during private Sunday Masses.”
The collection includes “30 sermons that were preached when [Joseph Ratzinger – przyp. red.] was pope and more than 100 that Benedict XVI addressed to his associates after his retirement,” CNS reported.
According to reports, the sermons were first recorded and then transcribed by consecrated women from “Memores Domini”, a lay association whose members lived with Benedict. The authors of the recordings first worked in the papal house of Benedict XVI, and after his retirement they moved with him to the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery. According to media reports, the Pope did not know he was being recorded.
Sermons of Benedict XVI
The Vatican newspaper “L’Osservatore Romano” and the German daily “Die Welt” were given permission to publish the first of the sermons. Both titles published it earlier this month.
According to CNS, the printed sermon was a meditation on Saint Nicholas. Joseph. Pope Benedict noted that every believer is in danger of seeing the Word of God as a sum of commandments and prohibitions, or as a set of norms. In this approach, belief would be an attitude of conforming to norms and thus being right.
– But if religion is really about this, if this is all, then there is no personal relationship with God, and man sticks to himself, tries to improve himself, to be perfect – said the late Pope, pointing out that it is difficult is to love God who ‘reveals only rules, and sometimes even threats.
Benedict XVI died on December 31, 2022. He was the first pope to voluntarily resign since Celestine V, who resigned in 1294.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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