We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.
The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time.
Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience.
These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.
Missionaries never give up on their dream of peace, even when they experience difficulties and persecution, which makes their presence strongly felt today.
We are all sinners. We are called to a conversion of heart.
Each person, and every people hungers and thirsts for peace; therefore, it is necessary and urgent to build peace!
We cannot live as Christians separate from the rock who is Christ. He gives us strength and stability, but also joy and serenity.
Do not forget, read a passage from the Gospel every day. It is the power that changes us, that transforms us, it changes life and it changes the heart.
Families will always have their trials; be living examples of love, forgiveness, and care.
A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil.
We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves.
I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ, or at least an openness to letting him encounter them.
There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.
The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it is a serious danger because the cause of the problem is not superficial but profound: it is not just a matter of economics, but of ethics and anthropology.
But you too, help one another: help one another always. One another. In this way, by helping one another, we will do some good.
And with the grace of Baptism and of Eucharistic Communion I can become an instrument of God’s mercy, of that beautiful mercy of God.
The book of Genesis tells us that God created man and woman entrusting them with the task of filling the earth and subduing it, which does not mean exploiting it, but nurturing and protecting it, caring for it through their work.
If in so many parts of the world there are children who have nothing to eat, that’s not news, it seems normal. It cannot be this way!
Today Saint Paul has told us that in Christ we have become God’s adopted children, brothers and sisters in Christ. This is who we are. This is our identity.