Pope Benedict’s private homilies reflect upon Our Lady and a life well-lived with Christ.
The Pope who reminded us “The one who has hope lives differently” offers further blessed meditations to bring to prayer in his private homilies.
The Lord Holds Us by the Hand: Private Homilies for Seasons and Feasts by Pope Benedict XVI covers Advent, Christmas, Lent, Holy Week, Easter and other selected feast days. (Vol. 2 will include Ordinary Time homilies.)
Given at Mass in his private chapels to a select small group of souls, Pope Benedict’s personalized take on Scripture and faith from a master theologian edifies the reader.
Benedict’s love for Mary shines. Take this passage, from the final homily presented in this first volume:
“[W]e must say that the closer a human being is to God, the closer he is to other human beings. Mary can be close to us all only because she is with God and shares in God’s openness. … Precisely this being-with-God brings Mary quite close to us: every one can have immediate access to her; everyone is sure of the solidarity of the mother with her suffering children, suffering because of sin. Only because we
