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.

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus.

If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

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.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!

Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.