Antonio María Javierre Ortas

“He left his office as Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments "on tiptoe", to devote himself to the service which on the contrary one must never give up: prayer. And now that the Heavenly Father has desired to have the Cardinal beside him, I am certain that in Heaven - where we trust the Lord has welcomed him in his fatherly embrace - he continues to pray for us.”

“It is not difficult to imagine the joy that awaits John Paul II to see an invalid ascend to Bernini's glory.”