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Subtle lessons
of Pope's days By THE EDITOR The sudden death of Pope John Paul will remind all Christians that they must preach t he Lord not only in their living but also in their
dying.
We are admonished in the gospel to be ever ready with lamps burning in readiness for the coming of the Lord and this applies to Popes as to the least of God's People. No more or less, then, can be said of Christians than that at the time of death they had reached the point in life where Christ wanted them to be. The world that has been stunned by the loss of a man whom they were beginning to love senses a contradiction, but it is the
is
Christ Himself.
vious.
the temptation to make Paul would likely appear on mere 33 days of prime time television were Pope John Paul a monu- he here today, was himself ment that grows taller and becoming a new style of taller with the retelling. communicator. It isn't necessary once it It was becoming clear is realised that each person that we would be hearing a contributes to the growth minimum of the formal of the Church in the way prepared address but very God chooses. much of the conversation of a man who wanted to be DOWN-TO-EARTH one with his listeners. Pope John Paul had comIn a few short weeks he menced to be the down-to- began to show where his earth Pope with whom peo- interest and concern lay, ple could relate, who had with Christian families, with the gift of speaking to them people in their ordinary at the level they could lives. contradiction of Christ Him- understand. We were yet to see if he self. It was something dif would emerge in the mould ferent yet strangely human of a great speech -maker or TOUCH OF EVERYMAN to hear of his nervousness the author of historic stateTo have lived a lifetime as he saw his name move ments. But he quickly bethat mysteriously moved up the list during the con- came evident as a man who towards the Papacy and in clave, and to know that his read much, remembered and that very instant almost not fellow cardinals gave him a reflected often over what to have succeeded is no word of encouragement as he had read and was ready less than the lesson of the inevitable became ob- to slip the results into his
of the
Nevertheless in the brief He struck a new chord view that the Church and in people's hearts when the the world had of him Pope following day he could John Paul may turn out to stand on the balcony of have succeeded because in Saint Peter's and reflect him was seen a touch of hack on his association with Everyman. Pope John and Pope Paul, That he died of a sudden still overwhelmed at the idea heart attack puts him in of his standing in their
conversation at any time. It is too easy to assert that his death was brought on by the strain of having to face up to the awsome
responsibility of running the Church and leading its complex government. Far better to remember the man who confessed that touch with the countless shoes. on the night of his election people and their families The cardinals in conclave he pulled out the Vatican who have had a similar told him that it couldn't Directory to find out what grief. be all that bad if so many went on at the centre of That he died suddenly in people were praying for the Church's administration. bed in a moment of quiet him, so this became the new It is a pity that so many reflection at the end of a Pope's own theme, Several commentators were obsessed busy day puts a sudden times during audiences he with what the new Pope stamp of reality and human. asked the people to see him would or would not change ity on his life. as he was and to pray for as though change is some As happens occasionally him. sort of criterion of God's with the comparatively short The man who had tried blessing. four years of the pontificate his hand at writing and Thus he simplified a little of Pope John XXIII there who thought that Saint the inauguration of his pontificate and, following the lead of Pope Paul
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the chair for no other reason than that he was too small for the people otherwise to have seen him.
Somehow that epitomises the short but smiling career of beloved Pope John Paul. Requiem Mass for the late Pope John Paul is to be celebrated this thursday evening at 6 p.m. in Sa'.nt Mary's Cathedral by Bishop Quinn, administrator of the diocese, and clergy, (See ALSO PAGES 2, 3)
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