” “Then, Benedict XVI compared the figure of John Paul II to that of the apostle John, "the beloved disciple". "Like the evangelist apostle, he too wanted to take Mary into his home", stated the Pope who defined the phrase “accepit eam in sua” (he accepted her into his home) as "uniquely meaningful", since "it shows John’s decision to share his life with Mary so as to prove that those who open their hearts to Mary are in fact welcomed by Her and become Hers. The maxim inscribed in the bearings of John Paul II’s papacy, Totus tuus, aptly sums up this spiritual and mystical experience". "Dear brothers and sisters ended Pope Ratzinger tonight our minds go back to the time of the death of our beloved Pope, but at the same time our hearts are almost driven to look ahead. We feel resounding in our souls his repeated invitations to go ahead without fear on the way of the faithfulness to the Gospel, to be the heralds and witnesses of Christ in the third millennium. We recollect his unceasing exhortations to generously cooperate to the achievement of a fairer and more sympathetic humanity, to be operators of peace and builders of hope. May our eyes be always fixed on Christ, "the same yesterday, today and forever" (Eb 13,8), firmly guiding His Church". ” ” ” “
