Benedict XVI, De Donatis said, had always shown great trust in providence.
As a priest, as a theologian, as a bishop, as pope, Benedict had shown “the fortitude and sweetness of faith, the essentiality and simplicity of one who knows that, when one dreams with God, dreams become reality.”
“Like St. Joseph, our bishop emeritus always emphasized the primacy of the Word of God over our human words, recalling the great value of silence and listening. He too made us taste, in his pontificate, the new and good wine of love.”
“When He wills,” De Donatis concluded, “God will approach this brother of ours and say to him, ‘Joseph, rise. Joseph, rise.’ And it will be Christ and his Mother who will take him with them and lead him to Paradise, where the dream of a lifetime will become the reality of eternity, to us the task of supporting the path of the Pope Emeritus.”
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