“My soul thirsts for God, for the living God”
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Vatican City. “My soul thirsts for God, for the living God” was the theme of the Br. Raniero Cantalamessa’s Advent sermons to the Papal Household for 2018. As always, our confrere, the Preacher to the Papal Household, preached on the Fridays of Advent in the presence of the Pope and the Papal Household. As usual, the sermons were given in the Redemptoris Mater papal chapel in the Vatican.
As Br. Raniero writes, “People today are passionate in searching for signs of the existence of intelligent beings on other planets. It is a legitimate and understandable search. Few, however, search for and study the signs of the Living Being who has created the universe, who entered into its history, and who lives in it. […] In the Church we are so pressed with tasks to perform, problems to confront, and challenges to respond to that we risk losing sight of, or leaving in the background, the porro unum necessarium, the “one thing is needful” of the gospel (Lk 10:42), which is our personal relationship with God. […] Let us try to do what St. Angela of Foligno recommended to her spiritual children: let us “recollect ourselves in God and [plunge] our whole soul in the divine infinity.” Let us take a bath of faith each morning before beginning the day’s work.”
Read the 2018 Advent sermons – download the material
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Papal chapel Redemptoris Mater in the Vatican