Today, Pope Benedict XVI has been in Brescia and Conesio, in northern Italy, paying tribute to his predecessor Pope Paul VI in the place where Paul VI was born and raised.
The Vatican page on the journey provides the program and texts of the Holy Father's homily at Mass, words at the Angelus, and speeches. Now available in Italian, those texts will be available in English translation, and translations to several other languages, from that same page when the translations are ready.
Benedetto XVI Forum has lots of photos. There are articles online at Asia News, Catholic News Agency, Vatican Radio (on the Mass) and Vatican Radio (on the Pope's final discourse of the journey).
KTO French Catholic TV has video on demand of the papal events in Brescia and Conesio (the commentary, of course, is in French). These include full-length videos of the Mass, Angelus, Inauguration of a New Headquarters for the Pope Paul VI Institute, and Visit to the Parish of Saint Antonino.
Benedetto XVI Forum has an English translation of the Pope's homily at Mass and his words at the Angelus. In his homily, the Holy Father spoke about the widow's mite from today's Gospel reading for Mass (Mark 12:38-44). He spoke about the widow in the Temple, as a place of worship, pilgrimage, and rabbinical disputes. Jesus, he said, "showed that he loved the Temple as a house of prayer, and because of this, he wished to purify it." He also spoke of the significance for Jesus' own mystery, "in which he himself would become the new and definitive Temple." Jesus teaches us to pay attention to the teaching in the detail of the widow's action, in which she gave everything, and thus gave herself. The Pope then delivered a meditation on the centrality of the Church, drawing from the Gospel and from the writings of Pope Paul VI. He bega, "The Church is a spiritual organism that
prolongs in space and time the oblation (offering) made by the Son of
God, a sacrifice apparently insignificant compared to the dimensions of
the world and history, but decisive in the eyes of God."
Zenit has an English translation of the Pope's words at the Angelus, in which he spoke of Pope Paul VI's devotion for the Virgin Mary.
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