Jesus is "true man and true God", He has "absolute power over death", yet He suffers "the pain of detachment", to the extent He bursts into tears. This is the portrait of Christ, as pictured by the Gospel’s passage of the resurrection of Lazarus, the focus of yesterday’s Angelus. "First of all, the evangelist insists on His friendship with Lazarus and his sisters Martha and Mary", said Benedict XVI, who highlighted that "for this reason He wanted to make the great prodigy". "The death of the body is a sleep from which God can reawaken us at any time": this is, according to the Pontiff, the "metaphor" that expresses "God’s point of view on physical death". "Jesus proved He has absolute power over such death", but "this lordship on death commented the Pope did not prevent Jesus feeling sincere com-passion for the pain of detachment". This is because, explained the Holy Father, "Christ’s heart is divine-human: in Him, God and Man have perfectly met, without separation and without confusion. He is the resemblance, or actually the embodiment, of the God who is love, mercy, fatherly and motherly tenderness, of the God who is Life", as he "solemnly" declared to Martha. And Jesus’s to Martha ("Do you believe this?”) is "a question that Jesus asks all of us". In the wake of Martha’s "exemplary" answer, "we too do believe, despite our doubts and our obscurities", concluded the Pope.
