"Every true believer went on the Holy Father is always walking along his personal path of faith and at the same time, with the small light he carries within himself, he can and must help those who are at his side and maybe have trouble finding the way that leads to Christ". Before saying the Angelus prayer, Benedict XVI gave "his most heartfelt wishes to the brothers and sisters of the Eastern Churches, who, according to the Julian calendar, will celebrate Holy Christmas tomorrow (today for those who are reading this, editor’s note)": "It is a great joy commented the Pope to share the celebration of the mysteries of faith, in the multiform richness of the Rites that are evidence of the two-millennium history of the Church". "Together concluded the Pontiff with the communities of the Christian East, which are extremely devoted to the Holy Mother of God, let’s invoke the protection of Mary onto the universal Church, so that it can spread all over the world the Gospel of Christ, Lumen gentium, the light of all peoples".
