Fatima, Portugal, May 13, 2010 / 09:08 am
At Mass on Wednesday evening in Fatima, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone spoke about the importance of being like children, humble and simple in our approach to the faith, in order to enter into the kingdom of Heaven. Fatima, he said, reminds us that this kingdom is at hand.
The Vatican Secretary of State presided over the Vigil Mass at the Marian shrine of Fatima, in Portugal on Wednesday evening. The traditional Eucharistic celebration on the eve of the Solemnity of Our Lady of Fatima, followed an earlier address by the Pope to the thousands of candle-bearing pilgrims there to join him in praying the Rosary.
Being like children, living our faith humbly and simply, said the cardinal during his homily, is "the wisdom from above," which contrasts with "the 'wisdom' of the world."
That of the world "exalts personal success and seeks it at any cost, eliminating without scruples those who are considered an obstacle to one's own supremacy. This is what people call life," he observed, "but the trail of death that it leaves behind immediately contradicts them."