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

Making the sign of the Cross - as we will do during the Blessing - means saying a visible and public "yes" to the One who died and rose for us, to God who in the humility and weakness of his love is the Almighty, stronger than all the power and intelligence of the world.

Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.

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.

While we too always seek other signs, other wonders, we do not realize that he is the real sign, God made flesh; he is the greatest miracle of the universe: all the love of God hidden in a human heart, in a human face.

Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life.

The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age.