Today, on the day of the solemn funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the nuns of the Santa Rita da Cascia Monastery dedicated the 7:30 a.m. Mass in the basilica to him, reciting a prayer he particularly loved:
PRAYER FOR BENEDICT XVI
My Lord and my God, take from me
everything that distances me from You.
My Lord and my God,
give me everything
which leads me to You.
My Lord and my God,
take away from me
and give everything to You.
(Saint Nicholas of Flüe)
In recent days, Sister Maria Rosa Bernardinis, Prioress of the Augustinian community, stated in a press release: “With Benedict XVI, we lose a profound man of faith and thought, who was a preacher of charity, understood as love, to which his first encyclical Deus Caritas est is dedicated. A theme that brings him close to the figure of Saint Augustine and our Rita, an Augustinian nun and saint.”
