The Blessing of Christmas

by Pope Benedict XVI

Publisher:

Ignatius

, 2007

Overview

This profusely illustrated book is ideal for personal or group meditations during the Christmas and Advent season. With its inspiring, profound, yet popular meditations on the blessings of the season, this volume by Pope Benedict XVI is a spiritual guide for the soul. Taken from his sermons as well as his writings, these beautiful meditations by the acclaimed spiritual teacher, writer and now Pontiff, give his usual fresh insights into the deeper meaning of this most wondrous event, and show the pope to be a man who knows how to address both the mind and the heart.

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Key Features

• Presents an ideal book for personal or group meditations
• Includes popular meditations for the Christmas and Advent season
• Provides profound biblical teaching for both Protestants and Catholics

Contents

• At the Beginning of Advent: An Advent Dialogue with the Sick
• The Genealogy of Jesus
• The Tree of Life
• Ox and Ass at the Crib
• The Feast of the Spirit
• The New Star
• “The Light Shines in the Darkness”
• “And the Word Became Flesh”

Top Highlights

“wise men, who are looking for the true Lord of the earth; and Simeon and Anna, whose” (Page 111)

“But when time itself is meaningful and each moment contains something valuable of its own, the joyful anticipation of something greater, something still to come, makes even more precious that which we already experience.” (Page 25)

“Silence means developing the inner senses, the sense of the conscience, the sensitivity to the eternal in us, the ability to listen to God.” (Page 92)

“The Latin word adventus can be translated as ‘presence’ or ‘arrival’.^{1” (Pages 15–17)}

“A second basic element of Advent is waiting—a waiting that is an act of hope” (Page 22)

Product Details

• Title: The Blessing of Christmas
• Author: Joseph Ratzinger
• Translator: Brian McNeil
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Pages: 144
• Christian Group: Catholic
• Resource Type: Topical
• Topic: Advent and Christmas

About Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI was the 265th pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the Sovereign of the Vatican City State and the head of the Roman Catholic Church. He was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. A native of Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI has both German and Vatican citizenship.