Pope Admits Jesus is the SUN

An interesting article today on the Italian newspaper "La Stampa":

Benedetto XVI: «Lui e altri scienziati ci hanno fatto capire le leggi naturali» 21 December 2008

Google translation from Italian:


Benedict XVI: "He and other scientists have made us understand the natural laws'
December 21, 2008

CITY OF VATICAN Benedict XVI recalled this morning at the Angelus before Christmas the figure of Galileo Galilei and other scientists who made us to understand the laws of nature and therefore the work of the Lord.

The fact that today, Dec. 21 - Ratzigner explained to the crowd of faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square - in the same time, falls the winter solstice, gives me the opportunity to greet all those who participate in various ways to initiatives for the year world of astronomy, 2009, held in the 4th centenary of the first comments to the telescope by Galileo Galilei. Among my venerated predecessors of memory - continued the Pope - were devotees of this science, as Sylvester II, that taught, Gregory XIII, and we owe our calendar, and St. Pius X, who knew build solar watches '.

If the heavens, according to the fine words of the Psalmist, telling the glory of God, "even the laws of nature, which over the centuries many men and women of science have made us understand better and better, I am a great stimulus to contemplate with gratitude the work of the Lord. Benedict XVI then recalled that astronomy has an important role in the scan time of prayer during the day and the Piazza San Pietro with its obelisk is a sundial that marks the hours of the day. The mystery of salvation, as well as historic - said the Pope - has a cosmic dimension: Christ is the sun of grace, with its light, and transfigures the universe turns on hold. The location of the feast of Christmas itself is linked to the winter solstice, when the days, in the northern hemisphere, start to grow longer again.

In this regard - added the Pope - perhaps not everyone knows that Piazza San Pietro is also a sundial: the great obelisk, it casts its shadow across a line that runs on the pavement toward the fountain toward this window, and in these days the shadow is the longest of the Year. This reminds us - added the pontiff - the role of astronomy in the scan time of prayer. The Angelus, for example, is recited morning, noon and evening, and the meridian, which formerly was used for knowing the "true noon" is governing watches."

source: www.lastampa.it/redazione/...2girata.asp

Other sources:
www.zenit.org/article-16611
www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Cronaca/
www.asianews.it/index.php

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