Peace is first of all the art of being.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.

We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize that God has chosen us from all eternity, sent us into the world as the blessed ones, handed us over to suffering, can't we, then, also trust that our little lives will multiply themselves and be able to fulfill the needs of countless people?

Based or our baptism, all are called to a mystical life, to communion with God. We need to claim that, to taste it and feel it, to trust that the deeper we live this communion, the more our behavior will witness to the truth.

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?