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Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.

Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.

Pope Benedict XVI
Humility, Darkness, Faces

The story of Mary of Magdalene reminds us all of a fundamental truth...A disciple of Christ is one who, in the experience of human weakness, has had the humility to ask for his help, has been healed by him and has set out following closely after him, becoming a witness of the power of his merciful love that is stronger than sin and death.

Pope Benedict XVI
Humility, Stronger, Weakness

God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Humility
Pope Benedict XVI, Stephan Otto Horn, Vinzenz Pfnür (2003). “God is Near Us: The Eucharist, the Heart of Life”, p.37, Ignatius Press

Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God’s humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity. Let us ask the Lord to help us see through the superficial glitter of this season, and to discover behind it the child in the stable in Bethlehem, so as to find true joy and true light.

Pope Benedict XVI
Children, Humility, Light
"Pope calls for worshipers to remember 'essence' of Christmas", www.cnn.com. March 29, 2012.

Making the sign of the Cross - as we will do during the Blessing - means saying a visible and public "yes" to the One who died and rose for us, to God who in the humility and weakness of his love is the Almighty, stronger than all the power and intelligence of the world.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Humility
Pope Benedict XVI's Angelus, w2.vatican.va. September 11, 2005.

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