Kindly visit my Christmas post at We Have A Story


Kindly visit my Christmas post at We Have A Story

my drawing of the Madonna and Child on chalk between 2009-2010, adapted image

"The question is:
Is the humanity of our time still waiting for a Savior?...

...despite its contradictions, worries and tragedies, and perhaps precisely because of them,
humanity today seeks a path of renewal,
of salvation,
it seeks a Savior and awaits,
sometimes unconsciously,
the coming of the Savior who renews the world and our life,
the coming of Christ,
the one true Redeemer of man
and of the whole of man."

~ Pope Benedict XVI, General Audience, December 20, 2006
source: Excerpts from Pope Benedict XVI's Spiritual Thoughts Series: "Christmas"

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