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   HOLY FATHER RECALLS HIS FIRST DAYS AT SCHOOL   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 24 SEP 2010 (VIS) - Yesterday evening in the Apostolic Palace at   
   Castelgandolfo, Benedict XVI received a group of pupils, parents and teachers   
   from the local Paul VI Pontifical School, which is run by the "Maestre Pie   
   Filippini".   
      
   "Dear children", said the Pope in his remarks, "you go to school and you learn   
   naturally, and I am recalling that seventy-seven years have now passed since I   
   began school. I lived in a small village of three hundred inhabitants, ... yet   
   we learned the essential things. Most importantly, we learned to read and   
   write. I think it is a great thing to be able to read and write, because in   
   this way we can know other people's ideas, read newspapers and books. We can   
   also know what was written two thousand or more years ago; we can know the   
   spiritual continents of the world and communicate with one another. Above all   
   there is one extraordinary thing: God wrote a book, He spoke to us human   
   beings, finding people to write the book containing the Word of God. Reading   
   that book, we can read what God says to us".   
      
   The Holy Father went on: "At school you learn everything you need for life. You   
   also learn to know God, to know Jesus and thus you learn how to live well. At   
   school you make a lot of friends and this is a beautiful thing because in this   
   way you form one big family, but among our best friends, the first we meet and   
   know should be Jesus Who is a friend to everyone and truly shows us the path of   
   life".   
   .../VIS 20100924 (280)   
      
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