Saturday 9 July 2011

Papal summer break

From the Vatican news service, confirmation that as the Holy Father begins his summer break at the ancient papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, he will be working on the final volume of his much appreciated 'Jesus of Nazareth' series:

We can also say that the Pope has a project in the pipeline that we all know about: the completion of his great work on Jesus of Nazareth. He told us he wanted to complete it with a third volume, though smaller, perhaps a bit different in nature and approach, which is about His childhood, about the infancy Gospels. He has already started working on it in his free periods of the past months, but probably this is the right time to bring the work to a conclusion or at least to forge ahead on it.

The series has immense spiritual riches, encouraging the Church to confess the Jesus of Sacred Scripture and Tradition, and sharing with contemporary culture the depth of the mystery of the Incarnation of the Word.  It would, therefore, be appropriate for us to pray for Pope Benedict as he undertakes this work.

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