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.

In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.

I have the feeling that we are in such a hurry that we do not have time to look at one another and smile.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people understand Him, in the desertion of His apostles, in the hatred of His persecutors, in all the terrible suffering and death of His Passion, and now in His permanent state of humility in the tabernacle, where He has reduced Himself to such a small particle of bread that the priest can hold Him with two fingers. The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

A family that prays together stays together. As we are united at this moment, let us join also the prayer of all and everyone. What you can do I cannot do. And what I can do you cannot do. But all of us together are doing something beautiful for God.

My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.