Without knowing, of course, that he was just three days away from his death, on January 10, 2023, Cardinal George Pell preached his last homily at San Giovanni Rotondo.
The Last Homily of Cardinal George Pell — Beyond These Stone Walls
Without knowing, of course, that he was just three days away from death Cardinal George Pell preached his last homily at San Giovanni Rotondo.
January 7, 2023 by George Cardinal Pell | Published by Napa Institute
Homily of Cardinal George Pell to the Caritas in Veritate — Magnificat Dominium Community at San Giovanni Rotondo, January 7, 2023
“We believers know well the blessings we have received in Jesus Christ: we know that “The people who lived in darkness have seen a great light, and those who lived in regions of the shadow of death, there a light has arisen” (Isaiah 9.1).
We know Jesus’ call, through the Baptist, to conversion: “Repent, because the kingdom of God is near” (Mt 4:17), but we older Catholics, or rather, adults, are also blessed because we have lived, in almost forty years, in the time of John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI.
These years have been pivotal for all of history: the papacy of John Paul II, one of the greatest popes in the history of the Church, not only …