The Vatican will next year publish a collection of sermons delivered by the late Pope Benedict XVI at private Sunday Masses, most of them during his decade-long reform, official Holy See sources revealed this Saturday.
These sermons have never been published before because they were transcribed by consecrated women who cared for Benedict . until his death on December 31, 2022.
These women recorded the sermons as Benedict XVI delivered them and have now transcribed them for publication by the Vatican publishing house.
Thirty of the sermons date from Benedict XVI’s pontificate, while about a hundred were delivered during his retirement, according to a statement from the publisher, the Joseph Ratzinger Foundation and the Vatican communications office.
All sermons are in Italian, the language used by the German-born theologian.
The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano published this Saturday, together with Germany’s Welt am Sonntag, the first of the sermons, a meditation on the figure of Joseph that Benedict XVI delivered on December 22, 2013, a few months after he became the pope. first pope in 600 years to resign as leader of the Catholic Church.
Benedict XVI died on December 31, 2022 at the age of 95.
Pope Benedict XVI’s longtime spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, head of the Ratzinger Foundation, is the curator of the collection.
Source: DN
