” “"The three Wise Men are just the first of a long line of men and women, who in their lives never stopped searching for God’s star", continued Benedict XVI in Marienfeld, in front of the boys and girls of the WYD. "It is the great host of saints, both known and unknown, through whom the Lord in the course of history has opened the Gospel before us and has leafed through its pages". The Pope recalled the high number of the Blessed and saints that John Paul II pointed out to the Christians as examples to be followed. They "were people who did not stubbornly search for their own happiness but simply wanted to donate themselves, because they were reached by the light of Christ" and "show us the way to be happy" and "to be really human people". "All through history, they have been the true reformers, who have lifted it up again so many times from the dark valleys into which it always risks falling again; they have always lighted it up again". The Pope quoted, among others, Benedict, Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, Ignatius of Loyola, Carlo Borromeo, as well as Maximilian Kolbe, Edith Stein, Mother Teresa, Padre Pio. "By contemplating these figures, we learn what it means to ‘adore’ and what it means to live according to the measure of the Child of Bethlehem, according to the measure of Jesus Christ and of God Himself". (to be continued)
