Happy Birthday to our Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

[MarieT]

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI celebrates his 95th birthday.
Wishing him a long healthy life and countless blessings

[Denise]

Isn't his b-day the 16th? You are probably just wishing him birthday blessings early.

[MarieT]

I thought so, but received pics of Arch Ganswein and also pope francis visiting him to wish him a happy birthday

[Denise]

I think it is awesome that he was an Easter Sunday baby and tomorrow, Easter, is his birthday

[MarieT]

he is so blessed
long life to him

[Denise]

Amen!

[MarieT]

wow blessed in more ways than known
check this out

The long Holy Saturday life of Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger will mark a final milestone this April 16. Unless he lives until 106, his 95th birthday will be the last time his calendar birthday and his liturgical birthday coincide.

Ratzinger was born in the early hours of Holy Saturday 1927. The practice at the time was to celebrate the Easter vigil in the morning, so baby Joseph was taken to the church within hours of birth to be baptized in the freshly blessed Easter water.

“I have always been filled with thanksgiving for having had my life immersed in this way in the Easter mystery, since this could only be a sign of blessing,” Ratzinger wrote in his 1998 memoirs, Milestones. “To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: We are still awaiting Easter; we are still not standing in the full light, but walking toward it in full trust.”

How fitting that the quintessential man of the liturgy should be a child of the Paschal Triduum, the summit of the liturgical year. There are at least three other ways that Holy Saturday fits the life of Benedict XVI.

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[Denise]

✝