The Vatican will next year publish a collection of never-before-seen homilies delivered by the late Pope Benedict XVI during his private Sunday masses, most of them written during his 10-year retirement, officials said Saturday.
The consecrated women who attended to Benedict during his pontificate and retirement recorded the homilies as he delivered them and have now transcribed them for publication by the Vatican publishing house.
Thirty of the homilies date from Benedict’s pontificate, while about 100 more are from his retirement, according to a statement from the publisher, the Joseph Ratzinger Foundation and the Vatican communications office. They are all in Italian, the language adopted by the German-born theologian.
Pope Benedict XVI appears on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in 2005. REUTERS
The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, together with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, published the first of the homilies on Saturday. This is a meditation on the figure of Joseph that Benedict delivered on December 22, 2013, just a few months after becoming the first Pope in 600 years to resign.
Benedict died on December 31, 2022, at the age of 95.
Its former spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, who heads the Ratzinger Foundation, is the collection’s curator. Project organizers said the homilies do not contain news or theological developments, but rather are “substantial spiritual nourishment.”
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Source: vtt.edu.vn