” “God is always "on the side of the last" and "His plan is often hidden under the dull ground of human events, that see the triumph of ‘the proud, the powerful and the rich’". This was said today by Benedict XVI during the second part of the catechesis in the Aula Paolo VI, before about 9,000 people. Today’s catechesis focussing on the Magnificat, the Song of the Blessed Virgin ends the comment on the Psalms and the Songs of the Liturgy of the Lauds and the Vespers, who had been started by John Paul II. The whole Magnificat, recalled the Pope, is marked by "a situation of real humility and poverty" because it reveals the "spirituality of the Biblic anawin, i.e. those devotees who recognised themselves as ‘poor’ not just in their detachment from any idolatry of wealth and power, but also in the deep humility of their hearts, deprived of the temptation of pride". (to be continued)” “
