Today at 2pm Pope Benedict XVI will complete his tenure as our Holy Father. To mark this historic moment, St. John will join with churches and institutions throughout the Archdiocese in ringing their bells, beginning at 1:52 pm and stopping at 2 pm.
“I would like to leave you with a simple thought that is close to my heart: ‘The Church is not an institution devised and built by human beings … but a living reality. … It lives still throughout the course of time. Like all living realities it develops, it changes … and yet in the very depths of its being it remains the same: its inmost nucleus is Christ.’“
– from Pope Benedict’s address to the College of Cardinals
Vatican City, 28 February 2013
More information: http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-benedict-xvi-begins-last-day-of-pontificate
