The Vatican next year will publish a never-before-seen collection of homilies delivered by the late Pope Benedict XVI during his private Sunday Masses, mostly written during his 10-year retirement, officials said Saturday.
The holy women who cared for Benedict during his pontificate and retirement recorded the homily as he delivered it, and have now transcribed it for publication by the Vatican publishing house.
Thirty of the homilies come from Benedict’s pontificate, while about 100 more are from his retirement, said a statement from the publisher, the Joseph Ratzinger Foundation and the Vatican communications office. All in Italian, the German-born theologian’s adopted language.
Pope Benedict XVI appeared on the balcony of the Basilica of St. Peter in 2005. REUTERS
The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, in conjunction with Germany’s Welt am Sonntag, published the first homily on Saturday. It was a reflection on the figure of Joseph that Benedict delivered on December 22, 2013, just a few months after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign.
Benedict died on December 31, 2022, at the age of 95.
His old spokesman, Rev. Federico Lombardi, who heads the Ratzinger Foundation, is curating the collection. Organizers of the project say the homily does not contain any theological news or novelty, but instead contains “great spiritual nourishment.”
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