By EWTN News - In his Angelus address in 2010 to begin the season of Advent and a new liturgical year for the Church, Pope Benedict XVI spoke about the importance of waiting... “One could say,” he said, “that man is alive as long as he waits, as long as hope is alive in his heart. And from his expectations, man recognizes himself: Our moral and spiritual ‘stature’ can be measured by what we wait for, by what we hope for.”