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Vatican City, Jan 16, 2013 \/ 10:42 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Pope Benedict examined salvation history as the story of man's relationship with and thirst for God at his general audience this week at the Vatican.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe desire to truly know God, that is, to see the face of God, is inherent in every human being,\u201d he said Jan. 16 in Paul VI Hall.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cPerhaps we also, unconsciously, have this desire to simply see who he is, what he is, who he is for us. But this desire is fulfilled in following Christ so\u2026we finally see God as a friend, his face the face of Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tPope Benedict began his audience by referring to Christ as \u201cthe mediator and the fullness of all revelation.\u201d Salvation history begins after the fall of Adam because God \u201coffers the possibility of his friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThis friendship with God was offered especially through Abraham and then the people of Israel, who were chosen \u201cnot with criteria of earthly power, but simply for love's sake.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThis election of Israel by God \u201cremains a mystery,\u201d but his election is always for the sake of the other, said the Pope.<\/p>\n

\tThe process by which God revealed himself was gradual, and involved mediators, including Moses and the prophets, who kept alive \u201cthe hope of the full and definitive realization of the divine promises.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIt is the realization of these promises that we have contemplated in Christmas,\u201d continued Pope Benedict. \u201cGod's revelation reaches its peak, its fullness\u2026God himself became man.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tIn John's Gospel, the pontiff recounted, Philip asked that Christ show the Father to the apostles.<\/p>\n

\tChrist's response, \u201cWhoever has seen me, has seen the Father,\u201d Pope Benedict said, \u201clead us into the heart of Christological faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIn this expression is summarized the novelty of the New Testament, the novelty that appeared in the cave of Bethlehem: God can be seen, God has manifested his face, and is visible in Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe Pope noted that \u201cseeking the face of God\u201d is a theme throughout the Old Testament \u2013 some 100 times it speaks about the face of God. The Old Testament recounts the desire for God as a \u201cyou,\u201d a person with whom we can enter into relationship.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cGod is certainly above all things, yet he turns to us, listens to us, sees, speaks, extends covenants, and is capable of loving,\u201d said Pope Benedict. But this relationship is never completed in the Old Testament.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cSomething completely new occurs, however, with the Incarnation. The search for the face of God is unimaginably changed because this face can now be seen. It is that of Jesus, of the Son of God who is made man.\u201d
\n\t\u201cHe is the fullness of this revelation because he is the Son of God as well as 'the mediator and the fullness of all revelation'\u2026Jesus, true God and true man, is not simply one of the mediators between God and humankind, but is 'the mediator' of the new and eternal covenant.,\u201d the Pope reflected.<\/p>\n

\tChrist's humanity is essential to our relationship with God because \u201c in him we see and encounter the Father\u2026and are given salvation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cOur entire existence must be directed toward meeting Jesus Christ, toward love for Him. In such an existence, love for our neighbor must take a central position; that love that, in light of the Crucifix, allows us to recognize the face of Jesus in the poor, the weak, and in those who are suffering,\u201d Pope Benedict exhorted his audience.<\/p>\n

\tWe can do this, he concluded, primarily through \u201cthe mystery of the Eucharist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe Eucharist is the great school in which we learn to see the face of God, to enter into an intimate relationship with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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