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Happy Birthday to our Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Post by MarieT » Thu Apr 14, 2022 7:36 am

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI celebrates his 95th birthday.
Wishing him a long healthy life and countless blessings
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Re: Happy Birthday to our Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Post by Denise » Thu Apr 14, 2022 10:03 am

Isn't his b-day the 16th? You are probably just wishing him birthday blessings early.
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Re: Happy Birthday to our Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Post by MarieT » Fri Apr 15, 2022 2:23 am

I thought so, but received pics of Arch Ganswein and also pope francis visiting him to wish him a happy birthday
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Re: Happy Birthday to our Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Post by Denise » Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:49 am

I think it is awesome that he was an Easter Sunday baby and tomorrow, Easter, is his birthday 😀
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Re: Happy Birthday to our Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Post by MarieT » Sat Apr 16, 2022 1:48 am

he is so blessed
long life to him
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Re: Happy Birthday to our Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Post by Denise » Sat Apr 16, 2022 9:11 am

Amen!
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Re: Happy Birthday to our Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Post by MarieT » Sun Apr 17, 2022 9:10 pm

wow blessed in more ways than known
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The long Holy Saturday life of Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger will mark a final milestone this April 16. Unless he lives until 106, his 95th birthday will be the last time his calendar birthday and his liturgical birthday coincide.

Ratzinger was born in the early hours of Holy Saturday 1927. The practice at the time was to celebrate the Easter vigil in the morning, so baby Joseph was taken to the church within hours of birth to be baptized in the freshly blessed Easter water.

“I have always been filled with thanksgiving for having had my life immersed in this way in the Easter mystery, since this could only be a sign of blessing,” Ratzinger wrote in his 1998 memoirs, Milestones. “To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: We are still awaiting Easter; we are still not standing in the full light, but walking toward it in full trust.”

How fitting that the quintessential man of the liturgy should be a child of the Paschal Triduum, the summit of the liturgical year. There are at least three other ways that Holy Saturday fits the life of Benedict XVI.
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Re: Happy Birthday to our Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Post by Denise » Mon Apr 18, 2022 7:12 am

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