POPE: MAN WHO CHOOSES IDOLS BECOMES ALIKE

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POPE: MAN WHO CHOOSES IDOLS BECOMES ALIKE

(AGI) - Vatican City, Sept.7 - With the original sin, man "has replaced the glory of incorruptible God with the image and figure of corruptible man, choosing to worship idols and becoming alike", said Pope Benedict XVI today, describing the temptation to be godless, which has always affected man, and is still topical. In order to react to this temptation, said the Pope in the general hearing, "we must keep on considering the son of God a model. He freed us from darkness and took us to the kingdom of his son. This is the condition that grants us eternal salvation, because Jesus Christ is the first-born of the dead, namely, the first to resuscitate". The pope then greeted the members of the Cistercense Order in St.Peter's square, asking them to "faithfully experience St.Bernard's charisma, and pursue his century-long spirtitual fertility". THe pope also met Moscow nuncio, mons. Antonio Mennini, and the representatives of the Holy See in South Africa and Peru. The pope was in good shape, but had a hoarse voice. A curious episode after the general hearing: a down lad, waiting to be blessed by the pope, gave him a blessing himself before receiving it, with the austere pontiff smiling. (AGI) .
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