“He taught me to be a Catholic set against the dictatorship of relativism; he formed my piety, awakened me to the beauty, truth & perennial power of the ancient mass. His life was principally a conversation with God — and we are beneficiaries of that.”
He taught me to be a Catholic set against the dictatorship of relativism; he formed my piety, awakened me to the beauty, truth & perennial power of the ancient mass. His life was principally a conversation with God — and we are beneficiaries of that.
Eternal rest, Benedict XVI. pic.twitter.com/p0JWe7Ob34
— Chad Pecknold (@ccpecknold) December 31, 2022
Those commentators who characterize Benedict as a cold “dogmatician” obscure the fact that “he’s really the theologian of personal encounter with Jesus Christ — that’s what he’s about,” Pecknold said.
“The way in which the modern mind has been shaken by skepticism in which we’re not really oriented to truth has been bad for people, has been bad for societies,” Pecknold said. Yet, Benedict and his teachings “awakened us to our need for truth, but also our need for God, and that societies need God just like souls need God.”
“Really at the bottom of everything in Benedict’s writing was ‘what is our fundamental orientation towards God? … and how can we reflect that in our lives and in our societies?’” Pecknold added.
Benedict’s teaching taught us “that we must raise up our worship, we must reorient our souls, so that we’re not kind of chasing after fashion, but that we’re oriented towards the God who is love,” he said.
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