"The most important thing is never grow away from Jesus", because "Christian life is defined as life with Jesus, to the point of identifying one’s fate with His and to be wanting to share with Him the supreme ordeal of death". This was said by the Pope, who, continuing the catecheses on the figures of the apostles, at today’s general audience in front of a crowd of approximately 30 thousand devotees lingered on the figure of the apostle Thomas. By defining as "exemplary" the "determination" of the latter in "following the Master", Benedict XVI highlighted how it "reveals a total willingness to adhere to Jesus". All this, added the Holy Father, in agreement with what Saint Paul writes in the letter to Corinthians: "What happens between the Apostle and his Christians must obviously apply first to the relationship with the Christians and Jesus Christ", the Pope’s comment. From Thomas, continued Benedict XVI, we learn that each one has "the right, as it were, to call Jesus to account. In this way, we express the poorness of our ability to understand and at the same time we put ourselves in the confident attitude of those who wait for light and strength from He who can donate them".
