"The Gospel tells us that love, by starting from God’s heart and working through man’s heart, is the force that renews the world". With these words, Benedict XVI recalled yesterday morning, before saying the Angelus in Saint Peter’s Square, in Rome, the Gospel of the Day about Jesus’ encounter with Zaccheus in Jericho. "Jesus commented the Holy Father calls by his name a man who was despised by everybody" and "the grace of that unpredictable encounter was such as to entirely change Zaccheus’ life". Then the Pope recalled Saint Charles Borromeo, archbishop of Milan in the XVI century, a saint whose testimony "shines bright" with the truth of love as a renewing force. A pastor, he added, who said that "souls are conquered on one’s knees". Finally, the Pope recalled John Paul II, who "bore Saint Charles’ name with devotion", entrusting to the intercession of the holy Milanese saint "all the bishops of the world".
