Mary is a mother full of gentleness and humility

On September 8, 2020, the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin offered Mass for the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Shrine of Torre Ruggiero in Calabria, southern Italy.

In his homily he invited us to imitate "the Virgin Mary, making concrete our love for the Lord in our daily lives."

Cardinal Parolin said that "the mission of the Son of God is realized through the generous availability of Mary, a humble creature on whom God looks with admiration… The history of salvation," he said, "does not follow the golden paths of the 'sensationa,’ but is fundamentally carried out through the humble and demanding paths of reality, in the ordinary rhythm of human life."

Cardinal Parolin invited us to embrace the simplicity of home life with faith and humility: "The ordinary side of our days," he said, "is not something negligible or unimportant in God’s eyes. The Lord Jesus does not stand outside of human history: on the contrary, He enters it fully."

Recalling the words of the Magnificat, the Cardinal said that "God sovereignly loves humility and rejects ostentation and pride. Christ, meek and humble of heart, wanted to come from a mother full of gentleness and humility, because He had to offer Himself to all as an example of these virtues."

Translated and adapted from Zenit