The Church must introduce the individual Christian into an encounter with Jesus Christ and bring Christians into His presence in the sacrament.

On the one hand, faith is a profoundly personal contact with God, which touches me in my innermost being and places me in front of the living God in absolute immediacy in such a way that I can speak with Him, love Him, and enter into communion with Him.

The counterweight to the dominion of evil can consist in the first place only in the divine-human love of Jesus Christ that is always greater than any possible power of evil.

Pope Benedict XVI Quotes