Go read the homily
If you haven't yet read the Holy Father's homily, scroll down a couple of posts and do so. Do not cheat yourself of the experience. I mean it. I just re-read it again twice, and it gets more amazing with each read. If you watched the Mass and heard it being translated live, I highly suggest you read the actual text now. The translator I heard did an okay job, but he did mistranslate a few key words that changed the meaning of what the Pope said in a few places. The text below is the official English translation released by the Vatican, so you can get the full meaning from reading through it.
After hearing him preach a few times now, I would say that Pope Benedict has a very different style than JPII -- more focused. JP was a philosopher, after all, and we're not known for our brevity and economy of expression. :-) Pope Benedict has a serious background in Scripture and Patristics, and it shows. His homilies read very much like some of the sermons of the early Church Fathers to me.
posted by LC @ 2:01 PM
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Here I want to add something: both the image of the shepherd and that of the fisherman issue an explicit call to unity. "I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must lead them too, and they will heed my voice. So there shall be one flock, one shepherd" (John 10:16); these are the words of Jesus at the end of his discourse on the Good Shepherd. And the account of the 153 large fish ends with the joyful statement: "although there were so many, the net was not torn" (John 21:11). Alas, beloved Lord, with sorrow we must now acknowledge that it has been torn! But no we must not be sad! Let us rejoice because of your promise, which does not disappoint, and let us do all we can to pursue the path toward the unity you have promised. Let us remember it in our prayer to the Lord, as we plead with him: yes, Lord, remember your promise. Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!
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