Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary

Francis of Assisi tells us we should work to build peace. But there is no true peace without truth! There cannot be true peace if everyone is his own criterion, if everyone can always claim exclusively his own rights, without at the same time caring for the good of others, of everyone, on the basis of the nature that unites every human being on this earth.

We cannot trust in our own strength, but only in Jesus and in his mercy.

Do good: we will meet one another there.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

I would like that all of us, after these days of grace, might have the courage - the courage - to walk in the presence of the Lord, with the Cross of the Lord: to build the Church on the Blood of the Lord, which is shed on the Cross, and to profess the one glory, Christ Crucified. In this way, the Church will go forward.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.