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

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

Today children are disposed of because there is no food or because they are killed before being born – children are discarded. The elderly are disposed of, well, because they are useless, they do not produce, neither children nor the elderly produce; then, with more or less sophisticated systems they are slowly abandoned and now, as in this crisis it is necessary to recover some equilibrium, we are witnessing a third very painful discarding –the discarding of young people. Millions of young people… are discarded from work, are unemployed.

When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost.

Everyone is called, everyone is sent out… The call of God can reach us on the assembly line and in the office, in the supermarket and in the stairwell, i.e., in the places of everyday life.

In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken.

As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family.