Then, to the priests studying at Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica, Benedict XVI said that, "overwhelmed by a whirlwind of frenzied activity, humankind often risks losing the sense of life, while a certain contemporary culture questions every absolute value and even the possibility to get to know the truth and the good". "That’s why went on Benedict XVI there is a need to testimony the presence of God, of a God that will understand man and will be able to speak to his heart. Your job will actually be to proclaim, through the way you live, even more than through your words, the joyful and comforting announcement of the Gospel of love in places that might be very distant from the Christian experience". Then, he invited the priests who will be the future members of the Diplomatic Corps of the Holy See to be "to meekly listen to God’s Word day after day. Live in it and of it, so as to make it present in your priestly work. Announce the Truth that is Christ (…). You’re your communion with Jesus grows in you, if you live of Him and not just for Him, you will radiate His love and His joy all around you". Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica was founded in Rome in 1701 by Abbot Pietro Garagni, on the advice of the blessed Sebastiano Valfrè of the Oratory of S. Filippo Neri of Turin. After only 20 years, it already had over 150 alumni.” “
