“Human life does not belong to the human being. It is something that we have received and that we experience. We do not live because of ourselves, our existence is a gift, it is God’s gift of which we are somehow the managers, the administrators of a property that is not ours”: this was said this morning in the Vatican by card. Dario Castrillon Hoyos, president of the Papal Commission ‘Ecclesia Dei’, in opening the second day of the International Conference called "The pastoral in the care of sick children”. “Some people think they have a right on life he went on . Faith gives a certainty: God is the author of life and wants our good; He always wants it, even when we are sick, even if this does not coincide with the concept that we sometimes cultivate. Even in front of a sick child, faith must lead us to discover that life is certainly God’s gift, that must be protected since the beginning, since there is the very first cell”. Then, the speaker stated that "faith teaches to join the child’s suffering with Christ and convert into salvation what would seemingly sound absurd and useless for a human being. Faith turns the pain of an innocent into a sacrifice, to everyone’s benefit. The child intuits the reason God allowed such pain, because He made man in His resemblance, calling him to exist for love. The understanding of innocent pain is part of the mystery of the personal communion with God”.
