During the General Audience on May 23, 2012, Pope Benedict spoke of the importance of feeling ourselves to be children of God. “Perhaps the man of today does not perceive the beauty, the greatness and the profound consolation contained in the word “father” with which we can address God in prayer,” he said. The Pope said that this may be because paternal figures aren’t present or don’t provide a positive example. “As Jesus is the ‘Son’ in the full sense, by becoming a human being like us with his incarnation, death and resurrection, he welcomes us into his humanity and into his very being a Son, so that we might also enter into the same affiliation to God,” explained Benedict XVI. “Certainly,” he added, “our being children of God doesn’t have the fullness of Jesus: we must become his children ever more along the course of our Christian existence.”“Growing in the footsteps of Christ, we learn to appreciate in our prayer the beauty of being friends, rather, children of God, of being able to invoke with the confidence and trust that a child has towards the parents that love him,” said the pontiff. “Let us open our prayer to the action of the Holy Spirit,” he concluded, “so that it shouts out ‘Abba! Father!’ from within us and so that our prayer may change and constantly convert our thoughts and actions to make them ever more in keeping with those of the Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ.”

During the General Audience on May 23, 2012, Pope Benedict spoke of the importance of feeling ourselves to be children of God. “Perhaps the man of today does not perceive the beauty, the...leggi tutto