From the latter:
This concert has, once again, permitted us to taste the beauty of music, a spiritual and therefore universal language, a vehicle so importantly suited to understanding and union between persons and peoples. Music is a part of all cultures and, we might say, accompanies every human experience, from pain to pleasure, from hatred to love, from sadness to joy, from death to life. We see how, over the course of the centuries and millennia, music has always been used to give a form to that which we are not able to speak in words, because it awakens emotions that are difficult to communicate otherwise. So it is not by chance that every civilization has placed such importance and value on music in its various forms and expressions.
Music, great music, gives the spirit repose, awakens profound sentiments and almost naturally invites us to lift up our mind and heart to God in every situation, whether joyous or sad, of human existence. Music can become prayer. Thanks again to those who organized this beautiful evening. Dear friends, I bless you all from the heart.
Pope Benedict XVI sits after arriving at the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican to attend a piano concert performed by Chinese pianist Jin Ju, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009. (AP/Daylife)
Chinese pianist Jin Ju performs during a concert attended by Pope Benedict XVI, at the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009. (AP/Daylife)
Pope Benedict XVI blesses faithful at the end of a piano concert performed by Chinese pianist Jin Ju at the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009. (AP/Daylife)
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