“He who believes is never alone”: the motto of the fourth apostolic journey outside Italy opened the sermon at Mass, celebrated today by the Pope on the esplanade of Islinger Feld, the first public event of Benedict XVI’s fourth day in Germany. As he dwelt on the Creed of the Apostles, in response to the question on “what believing means” today, the Holy Father recalled that “faith is simple” and “the Creed is not a group of rulings, it is not a theory”, but “an event in which man and God meet each other”. “It is true”, began the Pope, “the view of faith includes heaven and earth; the past, the present, the future, eternity and as such it can never be exhausted. Yet in its core it is very simple”. “We believe in God in God, the beginning and the end of human life”, sums up the Creed: “In that God that relates to us, human beings, who is our source and our future. Thus, faith at the same time is always hope, it is the certainty that we have a future and that we will never fail. And faith is love, because God’s love wants to ‘infect us'”. Through the Baptism, added the Pontiff, “Jesus Christ, as it were, adopts us as His brothers and sisters, thus welcoming us as children in the family of God Himself”. Hence the Pope’s invitation: “Yes, he who believes is never alone. God helps us. Let’s set out towards God and let’s thus get closer to each other! Don’t let’s let any one of God’s children alone, as far as we can!”.
