"The Lord is calling me to 'climb the mountain'"

At his last Angelus, reflecting on today's Gospel account of the Transfiguration, Pope Benedict XVI said,

"The Lord is calling me to 'climb the mountain', to devote myself even more to prayer and meditation. But this does not mean abandoning the Church, indeed, if God is asking me to do this it is so that I can continue to serve the Church with the same dedication and the same love with which I have done thus far, but in a way that is better suited to my age and my strength."