We need to include the excluded and preach peace.
It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good.
Whenever people listen to one another humbly and openly, their shared values and aspirations become all the more apparent. Diversity is no longer seen as a threat, but as a source of enrichment.
Rest is so necessary for the health of our minds and bodies, and often so difficult to achieve due to the many demands placed on us. But rest is also essential for our spiritual health, so that we can hear God’s voice and understand what he asks of us.
Praise is the ‘breath’ which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.
Breathing is made up of two stages: inhaling, the intake of air, and exhaling, the letting out of air. The spiritual life is fed, nourished, by prayer and is expressed outwardly through mission: inhaling and exhaling. When we inhale, by prayer, we receive the fresh air of the Holy Spirit.
Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come out?
Money is needed to bring about many good things but when your heart is attached, it destroys you.
Proclaim the beauty and truth of the Christian message to a society which is tangent by confusing presentations of sexuality, marriage and the family.
Peace is always possible but we have to seek it. Let us pray for peace.
Each encounter with Jesus changes our life.
We who are Christians, members of God’s family, are called to go out to the needy and to serve them.
Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.
When you meet the needy your heart grows bigger.
May the World Day of Consecrated Life be a timely occasion to rediscover the centrality of Jesus in our lives.
If we start without confidence, we have already lost half the battle and we bury our talents.
And does not true freedom mean choosing ways in this world that lead to the good of all and are guided by love?
When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched.
Love makes us similar, it creates equality, it breaks down walls and eliminates distances. God did this with us.
Let us go back to the Lord. The Lord never tires of forgiving: never! It is we who tire of asking his forgiveness. Let us ask for the grace not to tire of asking forgiveness, because he never tires of forgiving.