Pontiff: Retreatants Learned Again What Priesthood Is

Zenit carries a story on the thanks extended by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to Cardinal Vanhoye for the Lenten Spiritual Exercises the Cardinal prepared for the Roman Curia:

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In his address Saturday, the Pope thanked the Jesuit cardinal, who had just offered the retreat's last meditation on the relationship between the ministerial priesthood and the priestly heart of Christ.

At the beginning of his remarks, the Bishop of Rome used the image of Christ's washing of the feet to condense in a visual way Cardinal Vanhoye's reflections on the new elements of Christ's priesthood.

"Through his meditations, this image spoke to me," the Pope said. "I saw that precisely here, in this conduct, in this act of extreme humility, the new priesthood of Jesus is realized.

"And it is realized precisely in the act of solidarity with us, with our weaknesses, our sufferings, our trials, even death.

The full story is here.