My Pictures of Italy

Nov. 7: Papal Audience, Roman Forum, St. Paul outside the Walls

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The moon sets over St. Peter's as we wait for the audience to begin.
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The Pope! Continuing his Year of Faith reflection, on the desire for God written on the human heart.
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What can truly satisfy human desire? We must practice, we must train, and even correct ourselves, so that we may truly desire that good.
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Plaque on the Colisseum recalling how it was preserved and restored by Popes Celement 10th, Benedict 14th, and Pius 9th.
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St. Paul's Basilica outside the Walls
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The chapel of St. Benedict where we had Mass at St. Paul's.
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The Popes!
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In Italian "The human experience of love has within it a dynamism that leads beyond oneself, it is an experience of a good that leads one to go out of oneself and to find oneself before the mystery surrounding the whole of existence."
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In Italian: "It is precisely the truest joys that are capable of freeing in us that healthy unrest that leads us to be more demanding - to desire a higher, more profound good - and at the same time, to perceive with increasing clarity that nothing finite can fill our hearts."
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In English: "Continuing our catechesis for the Year of Faith, we now consider the mysterious desire for God which lies deep in the human heart. God has created us for himself and, in the words of Saint Augustine: our hearts are restless until they find their rest in him. Even in todayƕs secularized society, this desire for God continues to make itself felt, above all in the experience of love."

"In love, which seeks the good of the other, we find ourselves by giving ourselves away, in a process involving the purification and healing of our hearts. So too in friendship, in the experience of beauty and the thirst for truth and goodness: we sense that we are caught up in a process which points us beyond ourselves to a mystery in which we dimly perceive the promise of complete fulfillment."

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