Benedict XVI: Joy cannot be commanded. It can only be given. The risen Lord gives us joy: true life. We are already held for ever in the love of the One to whom all power in heaven and on earth has been given.Presiding over the Easter Vigil in St. Peters Basilica, the Pope reminded everyone of the Lords promise of eternal life, who died and has risen for the salvation of humanity.During the homily, the Pontiff reviewed humanitys fears, and its anguish at the destiny of illness, pain and death that has been imposed upon us. Today, modern medical science strives, if not exactly to exclude death, at least to postpone it further and further. What is new and exciting in the Christian message, in th ...
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