“Even some believers commented the Pope let themselves be attracted by enticing illusions and distracted by misleading doctrines that offer deceptive shortcuts to achieve happiness. Yet, despite his contradictions, worries and dramas, and perhaps just because of these, today’s man is looking for a Saviour and waiting, sometimes unconsciously, for the coming of Christ, the only true Redeemer of man and of all of man”. “False prophets he added keep offering ‘cheap’ salvation, which ends up causing bitter disappointment. It is up to us Christians to disseminate, through the testimony of life, the truth of Christmas that Christ bears to every man and woman of good will”. To get ready for this important date, "the spiritual attitude", according to the Pope, must be that "of a vigilant, praying wait”, which is the "fundamental trait of Christians, at this time of Advent”. Then, on greeting, after the general audience, the young, the sick and the newly married couples, Benedict XVI spoke of the crèches that are being set up in the houses over these days: "I hope such an important element, not just of our spirituality, but also of our culture and art, will still be a simple and meaningful way to commemorate He who came ‘to live amidst us’".
