Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.

Jesus fought Satan in 'hand to hand combat' . . . 'you need to protect this victory.'

The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.

When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched.

Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to help and enrich others by our own poverty. Let us not forget that real poverty hurts: no self-denial is real without this dimension of penance. I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.

To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.

...because with us what is highest must be at the service of others.