Pope Benedict spoke about Saint Anthony of Padua earlier this week at his general audience. Saint Anthony is one of the most popular saints and one to whom I seek constant intercession. The Pope told the audience that, as Saint Anthony preached, the Cross is the mirror in which everyone can find a meaning that enriches life. That includes non-believers.
Therefore, “nowhere man can better realize what he is worth than by looking at himself in the mirror of the cross.” St. Anthony of Padua, was a man who always put “Christ at the center of life and of thought, action and preaching.” He spoke “of prayer as a relationship of love which impels a man to talk sweetly with the Lord. Only a soul that prays can make progress.”
Pope Benedict spoke of Saint Anthony of Padua as an example of one who used the Cross as his mirror.
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