CNA reports that, in a letter to the participants of the 58th Liturgical Week in Italy, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican Secretary of State, explained that active participation in the liturgy prepares Christians to immerse themselves in the reality of the world.

Cardinal Bertone emphasized that the theme of the Liturgical Week, “Celebrating in the City of Man,” “aims to show that in order to live as Christians we must harmonize personal fidelity to Christ with ‘citizenship,’ that is, with the commitment to be present in the world as his witnesses.”
28th August 2007