Vatican
City, 12 January 2013
(VIS) - Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B.,
celebrated Mass this morning in the Chapel of Mary Mother of the
Family in the Governorate Palace of the Vatican to inaugurate the
84th judicial year of the Tribunal of the Vatican City State.
"We
would like to invoke Divine Wisdom," the cardinal said, "for
the delicate and serious task of administrating justice." He
then greeted, among others, the President of the Tribunal, Giuseppe
Dalla Torre, the judges, the promoter of justice, and the various
workers in the administrative office, relaying to them "blessed
greetings from the Holy Father who follows your appreciated labour
with attentive interest."
Commenting
on the Gospel reading that focused on St. John the Baptist, the
Secretary of State emphasized that the prophet's example and witness
are "a summons to believers so that they may set aside
attention-seeking, their wanting to be seen, thus reducing their own
ego so that the love for Jesus might grow in each of us and in
others. He is the Way the, Truth, and the Life. This attitude
requires humility of heart, which is a gift from God that we must
unceasingly ask for in prayer. This is why the John the Apostle, whom
we listened to in the First Reading, … recommends confident prayer
to the Father who, if the one who asks is ready to do His will, will
grant their request. We also ask and pray for our brothers and
sisters, so that they might not remain obstinately in evil and thus
refuse conversion. Mutual prayer acquires the value of an exquisite
act of charity. St. Paul also recommends several times that we pray
for one other and Jesus prays that Peter, after repenting, might
confirm the faith of the other apostles."
"In
this Mass our prayer community turns to the Lord so that each of us
might carry out our service in the administration of justice toward
our unique community of the Vatican City State with humility and in
truth. I wish all of you who are participating in the inauguration of
the judicial year in various ways, to be able to grow in the
awareness that harmony, justice, and peace are not fully achievable
without dedication to God and acceptance of His grace. Each of us is
also invited to an informed openness to the Transcendent, which the
Holy Father recommended to the members of the diplomatic corps
accredited to the Holy See a few days ago. He affirmed that without
such an openness, 'humans easily fall pray to relativism and thus
find it difficult to act justly or to commit themselves to peace',"
the cardinal concluded.
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