Rome, Italy, Dec 21, 2017 / 12:00 pm
At the funeral of Cardinal Bernard Law on Thursday, Cardinal Angelo Sodano said that every one of us is imperfect, but that we must give ourselves over to the loving mercy of God the Father.
Cardinal Sodano, who is dean of the College of Cardinals, presided over the Dec. 21 funeral Mass of Cardinal Bernard Law, the former archbishop of Boston, who died Dec. 20 after a hospitalization for congenital heart failure.
As it says in the funeral liturgy, "the souls of the just are in the hands of the Lord," he said, noting that these words illuminate our lives and give us hope in God's mercy.
In his homily, Sodano said that life is a precious gift, and for bishops, that gift of life has the great mission of serving God and man.