The Holy Father took leave of his closest collaborators, remembering that it was a joy to walk together over the years and expressing the hope that the College might, like an orchestra, achieve a higher harmony and concord.
As for the Church, he repeated the words of the theologian Romano Guardini, who wrote that it is a living reality, always becoming, but whose deepest nature remains always the same.
Benedict XVI concluded by promising obedience and reverence to the new Pope.
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