POPE Benedict XVI's General Audience of Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Our faith is not born from a myth or a ' idea, but the encounter with the Risen Christ, the Church's life
"Our faith is not born from a myth or an idea, but the encounter with the Risen Lord in the life of the Church." With these words the Pope's catechesis today concluded the general audience, held in Piazza San Peter the presence of about 15 000 people dedicated to the "relationship" between St. Paul and the apostles "who preceded him in following Jesus," who attended and "consulted" during the three years that followed the episode of the conversion on the road of Damascus. "The more we try to trace the footsteps of Jesus of Nazareth on the roads of Galilee - said Benedict XVI, the more we can understand that he has taken charge of our humanity, sharing in everything except in sin." A conviction which is personally experienced and witnessed by Paul himself, in the 'importance' which he attributed the "living tradition of the Church." In this perspective, the Holy Father pointed out, is "mistaken is the view of those who attribute to Paul the invention of Christianity: the first to evangelize, he met Christ on the road to Damascus and attended the Church, observing the lives of twelve people in that followed on the roads of Galilee. " "The resurrection of Christ until this affects the existence of believers," because Christ is risen and continues to live in the Eucharist and the Church. "
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