{"id":73,"date":"2005-04-08T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/?p=73"},"modified":"2005-04-08T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T16:50:00","slug":"funeral-words-from-cardinal-ratzinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Funeral words from Cardinal Ratzinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/pti_news.asp?id=291180\">At the funeral of Pope John Paul,<\/a> while people outside waved banners reading &#8220;Santo Subito&#8221; (meaning &#8220;Sainthood at once&#8221;), Cardinal Ratzinger gave a homily with an image that I believe will stay with me as long as I live.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recalling how the Pope had appeared at a window in the Vatican to bless believers on Easter Sunday, six days before his death, when he could no longer speak, the cardinal said: &#8216;Our Pope never wanted to spare his own life, but gave himself unreservedly for Christ until his last moment &#8230; now we can be sure that our beloved Pope is at the window of God&#8217;s house, where he sees and blesses us.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I, too, am convinced that Pope John Paul now blesses us from beside Jesus Christ. But I cannot put my thoughts any more eloquently than the Cardinal did, so I&#8217;ll hush for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the funeral of Pope John Paul, while people outside waved banners reading &#8220;Santo Subito&#8221; (meaning &#8220;Sainthood at once&#8221;), Cardinal Ratzinger gave a homily with an image that I believe will stay with me as long as I live. &#8220;Recalling how the Pope had appeared at a window in the Vatican to bless believers on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}