Message of Peace from Benedict XVI - July 25, 2006

RHEMES-SAINT-GEORGES, Italy, JULY 25, 2005 (Zenit.org).- From an address Benedict XVI delivered last Sunday during a ceremony for Mideast peace over which he presided in the church of Rhemes-Saint-Georges in the Aosta Valley

"...what we do to those who suffer, we do to the Last Judge of our life... Precisely at this time, a time of great abuse of the name of God, we have need of the God who overcomes on the cross, who does not conquer with violence, but with his love. Precisely at this time we have need of the Face of Christ to know the true Face of God and so be able to take reconciliation and light to this world. For this reason, together with love, with the message of love, we must also take the testimony of this God, of God's victory, precisely through the nonviolence of his cross."

Benedict XVI
July 25, 2006