Pope Benedict XVI in English - Weekly General Audience
I greet all the English-speaking pilgrims present today. I especially welcome the
young altar servers from Malta and their families, and I thank them for their faithful
service in Saint Peter’s Basilica. I also greet the pilgrimage groups from Nigeria,
Indonesia and the United States. In this month of August, when the Church commemorates
so many martyrs, let us give thanks for all those who followed Christ to the end by
offering their own lives in union with his sacrifice on the Cross. May their act
of supreme love and surrender to God inspire us on the way of holiness and charity
towards our brothers and sisters. Commending you and your families to their intercession,
I cordially invoke upon you God’s abundant blessings.