Rome closes down during August, this the first account of Sunday's Angelus I have found. I was complaining to a our students from Rome, he offered to be our Rome correspondent.

I was having difficulty downloading a picture of Mgr Goerg Ganswein for his interview, (below) our Rome correpondent tells me that a certain Italian princess thinks he is the handsomest priest in Rome.

From CNA
Speaking from his summer residence at Castelgandolfo, Pope Benedict XVI focused his weekly Angelus address on the Feast of the Transfiguration, which the Church celebrated on Sunday. The Pope discussed with the hundreds of pilgrims gathered below his courtyard window, the mystery of the “light of God,” telling them to, "experience the joy of being children of the light."The Holy Father noted that Mark’s Gospel describes Jesus appearing to Peter, James, and John in brilliant white clothing, “such as no fuller on earth could bleach them (Mark 9,3).” Benedict told the crowd that the glowing light emanating from Jesus is the same light that appears on the day of his Resurrection. “In this sense,” he said, “the Transfiguration seems to be like an anticipation of the Easter mystery.”“The Transfiguration is an invitation to open our eyes to the heart of the mystery of the light of God present in the entirety of salvation history,” the Pope said....Turning to the New Testament, the Pope said, “Christ is established as the complete manifestation of the light of God. His Resurrection overcame forever the power of the darkness of evil.”“In Him the light of God illumines in a permanent way the life of mankind and the path of history: ‘I am the light of the World,’ he affirms in the Gospel, ‘Who follows me, does not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life (Jn 8,12)’.”In this sense, the Pope said, this generation needs us, “to emerge from the darkness of evil, to feel the joy of the children of the light.”