Cardinal Angelo Sodano speaks about Fatima
Fatima is also an invitation to hope
Cardinal Angelo Soldano stated today in Rome that the Message of Fatima is not only an invitation to conversion, but also “an invitation to hope”.
“In the tragic war years, the words of Our Lady to the Little Shepherds were loaded with comfort and hope for mankind: In the end my immaculate heart will triumph!” underlined the Dean of the Cardinal College.
Cardinal Soldano was speaking from the Portugal Embassy in the Holly See in a session with Portuguese and Spanish languages ambassadors accredited by the Vatican, in the context of Pope Francis visit to Fatima on the 12th and 13th of May, for the Centennial of the Apparitions celebrations.
In the same session the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima, Monsignor Antonio Marto, who highlighted the actuality of the Message of Fatima.
Former Vatican Secretariat of State, Sodano stated that it is possible to understand the “richness of the church´s teachings over the mission of the Mother of God and the saints in the reality of the human history“, because there is in effect a «pure conscious of the progressive development of the marian devotion over the centuries».
Angelo Sodano reminded a famous sentence from the late Patriarch-Cardinal of Lisbon Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira: “it wasn´t the Church that imposed Fatima to the world, it was Fatima that imposed itself to the Church”.
It was the now Dean of the Cardinal College who read the third part of the Secret of Fatima on May 13th, 2000, in Fatima, as a request from John Paul II, during the beatification of Francisco and Jacinta Marto ceremonies.
In 2007 presided the International Pilgrimage of May, as a Pontifical Legate of Benedict XVI, in the celebrations of the 90 years of the Apparitions to the little shepherds.
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