(UPDATED!)POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT XVI LOOKS PRETTY DARN GOOD! IS HE PREPARING FOR A COME BACK?

When I saw this brief video of Pope Emeritus Benedict visiting Castelgondolfo on Sunday, I wondered if the producers had placed older video of the Holy Father Emeritus in the this report or if this is the Holy Emeritus on Sunday.

The reason I say this is that Pope Benedict wears the cape with his white cassock which I thought he was going to discard to distinguish himself from the reigning pope. He's wearing it has he descends the stairs of the helicopter and he is descending the stairs without cane or assistance and looks younger and rather spry as he walks. He returns to the helicopter the same way. The only thing missing in his quick walk up the steps is the bag that the reigning pope used going and coming from Brazil.

As he walks praying the rosary, he is walking at a quick clip and without cane. What's up????? Retirement seems to have done wonders!

UPDATE, UPDATE, EVIDENTLY THE HOLY FATHER EMERITUS READ THE HEADLINE OF THIS BLOG POST AND SETS THINGS STRAIGHT! HE'S NOT RETURNING TO THE PAPACY AS GOD TOLD HIM TO RESIGN IN A MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE:

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Former Pope Benedict has said he resigned after "God told me to" during what he called a "mystical experience", a Catholic news agency reported.

Benedict, whose formal title is now Pope Emeritus, announced his shock resignation on February 11 and on February 28 became the first pontiff to step down in 600 years.

"God told me to do it," the Zenith agency quoted Benedict as saying to a visitor to the convent in the Vatican gardens where he is living out his retirement in near isolation.

According to the agency, Benedict told his visitor, who asked to remain anonymous, that God did not speak to him in a vision but in what the former pope called "a mystical experience".

According to Italian media, Benedict's decision to step down was influenced by the various scandals that blighted his eight-year papacy, including the arrest of his personal butler for leaking private documents alleging corruption in the Vatican.

He was succeeded by Pope Francis, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, who was elected as the first non-European pontiff in 1,300 years.

According to the Rome-based Zenith, Benedict told his visitor that the more he observes the way Francis carries out his papal duties, the more he realized the choice was "wanted by God".

Last Sunday, Benedict spent a day at the papal summer retreat at Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, to escape the heat of the capital.

The visit indicated that the 86-year-old ex pope's health was good enough for him to travel. There had been media reports that since his resignation, Benedict's health had deteriorated dramatically.

(Reporting by Philip Pullella; Editing by Alison Williams)