Holy Week challenges us to step outside ourselves so as to attend to the needs of others: those who long for a sympathetic ear, those in need of comfort or help. We should not simply remain in our own secure world, that of the ninety-nine sheep who never strayed from the fold, but we should go out, with Christ, in search of the one lost sheep, however far it may have wandered.

The people of America, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us were once foreigners.

Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones.

In a family, parents, grandparents and children feel at home; no one is excluded. If someone has a problem, even a serious one, even if he brought it upon himself, the rest of the family comes to his assistance; they support him. ... Should the same not happen in society?

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

Whenever we take a step towards Jesus, we come to realize that he is already there, waiting for us with open arms.

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.