On January 5, 2023 the Casa Community in Rome gathered in the big hall
to participate online in the Requiem Mass for Pope emeritus Benedict XVI
Through the big screen and internet we were able to follow the event closely.
We were touched by the homily of Pope Francis meditating on the last words of Jesus:
“Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.“
This is the invitation and the programme of life that he quietly inspires in us. Like a potter (cf. Is 29:16), he wishes to shape the heart of every pastor, until it is attuned to the heart of Christ Jesus (cf. Phil 2:5).
Holding fast to the Lord’s last words and to the witness of his entire life, we too, as an ecclesial community, want to follow in his steps and to commend our brother into the hands of the Father.
May those merciful hands find his lamp alight with the oil of the Gospel that he spread and testified to for his entire life (cf. Mt 25:6-7).
Thank you, Pope Benedict for the witness of your life!
Intercede for us and the entire Church!
