I’m not claiming to be special and I hope I’m not but sometime in the summer I was convicted to start praying for the pope in earnest and from there for the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Then came the prayers for Mary to show us her Son and to pray for the Church. Then prayers for our holy priests and then prayers for our not so holy priests, because God can make them holy.
I couldn’t wait to pray and sometimes I felt like I couldn’t pray fast enough to pray what I had to pray.
I should have sense that B16 was looking to step down once his most recent book, the one about the life and times of Jesus, of the infancy and childhold naritives when he said it was going to be his last book.