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Tried, moved, but at the same time at peace. Archbishop Georg Gänswein, Prefect of the Papal Household and private secretary first of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and then of Benedict XVI, visited the studios of Vatican Radio a day ahead of the funeral of the man he served for many years.
Usually, we prayed Lauds in front of his bed: that morning too I said to the Holy Father:"Let's do as we did yesterday: I pray aloud and you join in spirit." In fact, it was no longer possible that he could pray aloud, he was really out of breath. I told everyone:"I'll call Pope Francis right away; he will be the first to know." I called him, and he said:"I'll be there immediately!"
God became incarnate in Jesus Christ, in Jesus of Nazareth, and this is his message: to follow not a theory of truth, but to follow the Lord. “I am the way, the truth and the life”. This is his message. A message that is not a burden: rather it is an aid to carry all the weight of each day, and this gives joy. There are problems, but faith is stronger; faith must have the last word.
But the naked truth is this: he no longer had the strength to lead the Church, as he said in Latin that day. I asked:"Holy Father, why in Latin?" He replied:"This is the language of the Church." Anyone who thinks they can find or need to find some other reason is wrong. He communicated the real reason. Amen.
The Pope is the first witness of the Gospel, indeed, of the Lord. And there we saw that his words, the words of the Successor of Peter, were not accepted. But this tells us that the leadership of the Church is not done only by commanding, deciding, but also by suffering, and the part of the suffering was no small one. When he became Emeritus, certainly all the responsibility and the whole Pontificate were over for him.
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