Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov 10, 2010 / 12:11 pm
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina encouraged the country's bishops to pray for strength to serve “the people of God with meek hearts.”
During his homily at the opening Mass of the bishops’ 100th Plenary Assembly, Cardinal Bergoglio invited his brother prelates to pray for meekness of heart. Like charity, he explained, meekness translates into patience and unselfish service, rejoicing always in the truth, “believing all things, bearing all things, hoping all things.”
“We were chosen to help our brothers and sisters to be poor and humble people who find refuge in the name of the Lord,” he said.
“In the exercise of this choice of the Lord to lead, sanctify and teach, we must be careful not to break away from him, not to scandalize him, not to become bosses and supervisors distant from the faithful,” he said.