Ask the Pope

Wonderful Pope Benedict went to visit a seminary in Rome, and some of the seminarians got to ask him questions.
Here is one question & answer that I especially liked. It's about how you hear God's voice...


Q- how, among the thousands of interior voices, can one discern the voice of God speaking within ?


A- "God speaks," Pope Benedict replied, "through other people, through friends, through our parents, ... through the priests who guide you," above all He speaks "in Sacred Scripture" which must be read "not as the word of a man or a document from the past, ... but as the Word of God which is always valid and speaks to me."

"It is important to remain attentive to the other voices of the Lord, to let ourselves be guided also by people who have, so to say, experience with God and help us along this path. ... In this way our discernment grows, our personal friendship with God grows, [as does] the capacity to perceive, in the thousands of voices we hear today, the voice of God, which is always present and always speaks to us."

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