” “"Becoming, with Him, people who love, to increasingly experience how good it feels to wear His yoke". This is the wish that concluded the Pope’s homily at Maundy Thursday Mass, focussed on a reflection on priesthood through the "interpretation" of the liturgical vestments. With reference to the chasuble, Benedict XVI recalled that "wearing the yoke of the Lord means first and foremost: learning from Him. Always being willing to be taught by Him. From Him, we must learn meekness and humbleness God’s humbleness that becomes apparent in His being a man". Then, as he quoted a sentence of Saint Gregory of Naziantus, who, asked "why God wanted to become a man", answered: "God wanted to realise what obedience means to us" the Pope confided: "Sometimes we would like to say to Jesus: Lord, your yoke is not light at all. Actually, it is awfully heavy in this world. But then, as we look at Him who carried everything who personally experienced obedience, weakness, pain, all the darkness, then these wailings of ours die down". ".His yoke – concluded the Pope is to love with Him. And the more we love Him and with Him we become people who love, the lighter His seemingly heavy yoke becomes for us".” “
