The Pope and Dei Genetrix

On Tuesday Fr Blake of St Mary Magdalen, Brighton, whose blog is always worth looking at, posted this, which I am happy to forward to others:

" Yesterday, in an unscripted address to the synod of the Bishops of the Middle East Pope Benedict spoke of Our Lady as Theotokos, Dei Genetrix in the most beautiful and profound words that I think I have ever read on her. Sandro Magister offers an immediate translation and Rorate highlights a few selected paragraphs but this is worth reading and re-reading again and again."