Friday, September 24, 2010

Pope to School Children

(VIS) - Yesterday evening in the Apostolic Palace at Castelgandolfo, Benedict XVI received a group of pupils, parents and teachers from the local Paul VI Pontifical School, which is run by the "Maestre Pie Filippini".

"Dear children", said the Pope in his remarks, "you go to school and you learn naturally, and I am recalling that seventy-seven years have now passed since I began school. I lived in a small village of three hundred inhabitants, ... yet we learned the essential things. Most importantly, we learned to read and write. I think it is a great thing to be able to read and write, because in this way we can know other people's ideas, read newspapers and books. We can also know what was written two thousand or more years ago; we can know the spiritual continents of the world and communicate with one another. Above all there is one extraordinary thing: God wrote a book, He spoke to us human beings, finding people to write the book containing the Word of God. Reading that book, we can read what God says to us".

The Holy Father went on: "At school you learn everything you need for life. You also learn to know God, to know Jesus and thus you learn how to live well. At school you make a lot of friends and this is a beautiful thing because in this way you form one big family, but among our best friends, the first we meet and know should be Jesus Who is a friend to everyone and truly shows us the path of life".

7 comments:

Tom Piatak said...

Wonderful.

georgem said...

Pope to School Children. If only that were true.

Jackie Parkes MJ said...

Thanks for this Fr Ray..looked like pictures of the Holy Father greeting the Oratory Primary School children on Sunday.

Pedant said...

"Pope to Shool Children"

Not wishing to nitpick, Father, but which shool did you attend?

gemoftheocean said...

For a second there I thought you didn't spell "Shul" right and wondered why the pope would be schooling Jewish children! :-D

Fr Ray Blake said...

Alright I'll add a "c" to "shool"!

francis said...

At first glance, I thought it said "Pope to Shoot Children". Well, I thought, at least that'll put an stop to the endless talk about sex abuse …

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