[livius]

we should all be thankful for the enormous sacrifice Benedict is making

I think he is going to have a tremendous amount of suffering. It is almost as if we are watching someone on the way to martyrdom. We must all pray constantly for him!

[k omalley]

"It is almost as if we are watching someone on the way to martyrdom."

I hope that it is just my overactive imagination, but when he walked out on the balcony as our new pope I had the same fear.

He will be in my prayers daily.

[NeoCaveman]

I think he is going to have a tremendous amount of suffering. It is almost as if we are watching someone on the way to martyrdom. We must all pray constantly for him!

From the 2 papal masses this keeps sticking in my head John 21:18-19, apologies in advance for the old English :)

18 Amen, amen, I say to thee, When thou wast younger, thou didst gird thyself and didst walk where thou wouldst. But when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee and lead thee whither thou wouldst not. 19 And this he said, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had said this, he saith to him: Follow me.