In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano Pope Benedict XVI is followed by his brother Rev. Georg Ratzinger as his personal aide Rev. Georg Gaenswein stands at left after the pontiff visited his brother's home in Pentling just out of Regensburg, southern Germany, Wednesday Sept. 13, 2006. The pontiff is on a six-day visit to his native Bavaria region of Germany. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)
I watched this morning's visit to the Cathedrale in Freising. People in the crowd pushed gifts into the pope's hands. One photo op and Gaenswein took the gift, then handed it to another aide. Each motion was so finely tuned, like an organ.
It's all just a happy memory now.