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Christian charity corrects 'frenetic' modern society, Pope tells audience
CWN: 10/14/09 |
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Continuing his series of talks on the fathers of the early Church, Pope Benedict XVI devoted his weekly audience of October 14 to Peter the Venerable, the 12th-century abbot of Cluny, who was "an admirable example of a man rigorously ascetic with himself yet understanding toward others."
Elected to head the monastic community at Cluny in 1122, Peter the Venerable became renowned for the care he showed for his monks and for others. His devotion to the needs of others, the Pope said, "is an example for monks and other Christians in our own time, with its frenetic pace of life." The Benedictine abbot taught that every Christian should be sensitive to the needs of others, explaining that "they are not nourished by the Spirit of Christ who do not feel the wounds of the Body of Christ wherever they may occur."