” “A special greeting was given by Benedict XVI to “the old mother” of Venezuelan cardinal Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, along with one to the Spanish Antonio Cañizares Llovera, cardinal of Toledo. “Your peoples recalled the Holy Father stand out for their faithfulness to the Successor of Peter”. He did not forget to recall John Paul II in addressing the “dear Cardinal Stanislao Dziwisz” to whom the Pope expressed “gratitude for all the years spent” by his side. “A heart-felt welcome” was left for card. Franc Rodé from the Slovenian Church, who, as the Prefect of the Congregation of the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life, “offers his contribution to the mission of the Apostolic See”. “In giving you again, Cardinals, my brotherly welcome he concluded I wish to assure you I will keep being by your side with my prayers. The meetings of the whole College of Cardinals with the Successor of Peter, as it happened last Thursday, will remain special opportunities to try, all together, to serve in the best possible way the Church, entrusted by Christ to our care”.
