Tu es Petrus

Dear Pope Benedict XVI,
Happy sacerdotal anniversary!
I was never angry at you for renouncing the papacy but I can't help but wonder how you feel and think with the things happening now.
Perhaps you knew this was coming and you were just an interlude to prepare the Church and the world for it.
You said you are not abandoning the Church and "I do not abandon the cross, but remain in a new way near to the Crucified Lord. I no longer wield the power of the office for the government of the Church, but in the service of prayer I remain, so to speak, within St. Peter’s bounds." Do you feel the ominous clouds building up? Do you feel the pain?
Yes, I guess you are telling us to remain with our Crucified Lord and never fail in confidence that He steers the barque.
And as you have reiterated, Jesus has the last Word in humanity's history. So be it.
With Christ, in Christ, and through Christ, we stay.
Thanks Benedict XVI.