"Especially with the slow but relentless progress of the disease, which slowly deprived him of everything, his life became entirely an offering to Christ, the living announcement of His passion, in the faith-filled hope of Resurrection". In the sermon at Mass for the second anniversary of the death of the servant of God John Paul II, Benedict XVI highlighted that "his papacy was inspired by ‘prodigality’, by his generously and unstintingly committing himself. What moved him but a mystic love of Christ, of He who, on October 16th 1978, had had him called, with the words of the ceremonial: “Magister adest et vocat te The Master is here and is calling you”? On April 2nd 2005, the Master came back, this time with no intermediaries, to call him and take him home, to the house of the Father. And he, once again, promptly responded with his fearless heart, and sighed: ‘Let me go to the Lord’". Mentioning the different "drafts of his will", the Pope recalled that his "beloved" John Paul II "for a long time had been getting ready for this last encounter with Jesus. Like his divine Master, he lived his agony in prayer. He died praying. He really fell asleep in the Lord".
