URBI ET ORBI MESSAGE
OF HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI
OF HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI
CHRISTMAS 2012
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“Veritas de terra orta est!” – “Truth has sprung out of the earth” (Ps 85:12).
Dear brothers and sisters in Rome and throughout the world, a happy Christmas to you and your families!
In this Year of Faith, I express my Christmas greetings and good
wishes in these words taken from one of the Psalms: “Truth has sprung out of the
earth”. Actually, in the text of the Psalm, these words are in the future:
“Kindness and truth shall meet; / justice and peace shall kiss. / Truth shall
spring out of the earth, /and justice shall look down from heaven. / The Lord
himself will give his benefits; / our land shall yield its increase. / Justice
shall walk before him, / and salvation, along the way of his steps” (Ps
85:11-14).
