God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

Consecrated life means going to the very root of the love of Jesus Christ with an undivided heart and putting nothing ahead of this love.

To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.

Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.

The Jesus of the Gospels is surely not convenient for us.

I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on earth

Indeed, beauty is one of mankind's greatest needs; it is the root from which the branches of our peace and the fruits of our hope come forth. Beauty also reveals God because, like him, a work of beauty is pure gratuity; it calls us to freedom and draws us away from selfishness.