Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God.

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'

Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy let us pray.

When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of society - that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome. And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.