We become new if we let ourselves be grasped and shaped by the new Man, Jesus Christ. He is the new Man par excellence. In him the new human existence became reality and we can truly become new if we deliver ourselves into his hands and let ourselves be moulded by him.

Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.

Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart.

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

Est autem fides sperandarum substantia rerum, argumentum non apparentium. – Faith is the hypostasis of things hoped for; the proof of things not seen.

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gesture of opening up, tearing the world open so that heaven my enter in, may become "present" within it.