POPE BENEDICT XVI DELIVERS HIS FINAL WEDNESDAY AUDIENCE TALK AS THE HOLY FATHER THE DAY BEFORE HIS HISTORIC RESIGNATION.............

It is just past 2 a.m. Pacific Time, 11 a.m., in Rome / Vatican City, and His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI is speaking to a very large throng of pilgrims, Italian citizens, Bishops, Cardinals, Priests, Religious, Deacons, and Lay Catholic-Christians Live in St. Peter's Square.  He is delivering a message of gratitude and thankfulness for his priestly, pastoral, and papal, Ministry to God's People.   Specifically citing the Cardinals and persons he has worked with in the Vatican during the past eight years as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church His Farewell Address is short, seventeen minutes in length and is responded to by the mass of persons before him enthusiastically, with roaring cheers, applause, and shouts of "Viva Il Papa".  He is now proceeding to highlight the message in multiple languages.  Benedict appeared a half hour early in the Square in the Pope and took a longer than usual ride around the grounds before assuming his chair and beginning to speak.  Attendees began showing up for the Pope's speech in the wee hours of the morning Italian.  It is being reported  50,000 persons bought tickets to the event and that Vatican Press are stating that as many as 250,000 people may be in attendance this morning.  This begins my 'Update the Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, blogging over the next several days, which I will do as I have other events for more than a year now.  Join me today, tomorrow, Friday and through the weekend, as I share with you here at "Insights Into Life And Faith By Father Troy David Powers", information, analysis, commentary, on the conclusion of Pope Benedict XVI's eight years of Petrine Ministry, the first Successor of St. Peter since 1415 A.D., to retire from the Holy See.  Thank You for reading and following my blog in these momentous and history making days for the Catholic Church and the present and future of our contemporary and current experiences of Catholic Christianity in the 3rd Millennium of Discipleship in Jesus Our Lord and Savior.............Father Troy David Powers