Te Deum, Pope Francis thanks those who helped in the pandemic
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January 01, 2021 "This year, while we are hoping for a rebirth and new treatments, we are not neglecting the cure. Because, in addition to the vaccine for the body, we need the vaccine for the heart: it is the cure. It will be a good year if we will take care of others, as Our Lady does with us ".
Thus Pope Francis in the homily prepared for the Mass on the Solemnity of Mary Most Holy Mother of God and on the anniversary of the 54th World Day of Peace.
The homily was read by the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, called to replace Francis, who was struck by a "painful sciatica".
The pontiff recalls that "good comes from the heart: how important it is to keep the heart clean, to guard the interior life, prayer!".
How important it is, he stresses, "to educate the heart to care, to care for people and things. It all starts from here, from taking care of others, of the world, of creation. You don't need to know many people and many things if you don't we take care of it ".
"Through Mary - wrote the pope - we meet God as he wants: in tenderness, in intimacy, in the flesh. Yes, because Jesus is not an abstract idea, he is concrete, incarnate, was born of a woman and grew patiently. Women know this patient concreteness: we men are often abstract and we want something immediately; women are concrete and know how to patiently weave the threads of life. How many women, how many mothers in this way give birth and rebirth life, giving future to the world We are not in the world to die, but to generate life. The holy Mother of God teaches us that the first step to give life to what surrounds us is to love it within us ".