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When they are read one after another, the homilies of Benedict XVI trace out the arc of the liturgical year, and therefore the Christian mystery, with exemplary clarity. This outline has blank spots in places, because there are some Sundays and feast days that the pope does not celebrate in public. But he himself demonstrates that he wants to fill in these blank spaces with messages addressed to the faithful and to the world every Sunday at midday before the prayer of the Angelus, or, during the Easter season, the Regina Caeli.
These messages are often mini homilies. In them, Benedict XVI, comments on the readings for the Mass of the day. They are unmistakably his own work, true jewels of short form preaching. The reader will find some of them in the appendix to the book. And with these, he will enrich his vision of that masterpiece that is the liturgical year, narrated by Pope Benedict.