Rorate Caeli

True hope - True God


The development of modern science has confined faith and hope ever more to the private and individual domain, so far that today it appears in a clear, and sometimes dramatic, way that man and the world need God - the true God! -, being otherwise deprived of hope. Science contributes greatly to the welfare of mankind - undoubtedly -, but it is not able to redeem it. Man is redeemed by love, which renders personal and social life good and beautiful. Due to this, the great hope, that which is full and definitive, is ensured by God, by the God who is love, who in Jesus came to us and gave us life, and in Him will return at the end of time. It is in Christ that we hope, it is in Him that we expect!

Benedict XVI
Words before the Angelus
December 2, 2007