"True religion lies in the love of God ad one’s neighbours". This was said by the Pope, who, in yesterday’s Angelus, defined this sentence "a summary of all the Christian message. Always living in the joy of the Christian experience, wished Benedict XVI, who, at the end of the Marian prayer, invoked the Virgin, that she may "arouse in us feelings of filial surrender to God, who is infinite mercy", as written by Saint Augustine in a famous passage of his Confessions. Then, quoting the passage of Matthew’s calling, the Pope defined as a "keyword, one of those that lead us into the heart of the Scriptures", the prophecy of Oseas, which Jesus mentions in the Evangelical passage, "set in a new context again, about the observance of the Saturday": “Then go and learn what this means: Mercy I want, not sacrifice “. Jesus, according to the Pope, has made this oracle of the prophet "its own with all His heart" and "accomplished through His behaviour", "even at the cost of hurting the sensitivity of the leaders of His people". After the Angelus, Benedict XVI sent "a special prayer" to the miners, who lost their lives in the catastrophe of the Borynia mine, in Poland, last Wednesday, asking "for them the grace of eternal rest, spiritual comfort for their families, and quick recovery for the wounded".
