Pope Benedict visits Auschwitz camp site

Pope Benedict XVI praying for victims of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland yesterday. (AP)

le soleil dit,

You see, "Rainbow" in Judeo-Christian faith connotes the sense of forgivness, promise, hope, and new creation. So when a rainbow was raised at the far end of the horizon when Pope Benedict XVI was praying at a Nazi German extermination camp at Auschwitz, I broke into tears.

Think of a German Pope who had once been a reluctant member of Hitler youth, come now as a son of Germany and seek reconciliation, praying at the Wall of Death where thousands of Jews were slaughtered. It has been raining when Pope paid the visit. The sky was grey, and the atmosphere was somber. The chanting at the back only added to the desperate need for hope and reconciliation. It was at the moment when the Pope was meditating at the memorial, at the far back of the horizon, there appeared a "rainbow... I broke into tears.

How we need to be reminded that we cannot live as human beings without forgiveness, promise, hope and new creation.