“Humbleness can be considered his spiritual legacy". With these words, the Pope commemorated Papa Luciani on the thirtieth anniversary of his death. “I immediately thought of Pope John Paul I”, said Benedict XVI before yesterday’s Angelus, the last one this year from Castelgandolfo: “He chose as his Episcopal motto the same one as Saint Carlo Borromeo: ‘Humilitas. One word that summarises the basics of Christian life and suggests the essential virtue of those who, in the Church, are called to serve the authority”. “In one of the four general audiences he held during his very short papacy recalled the Holy Father , he also said, with that familiar tone that was his distinctive trait: ‘I will only recommend a virtue that is so beloved by the Lord: He said: learn from me who am meek and humble at heart … Even if you have done great things, say: we are useless servants’. And he noticed: ‘Instead the trend in all of us is rather the opposite: to show off”. (continued)
