It occurs to me: why is it mainly women, who to pass on the faith? Simply because the one who brought us Jesus is a woman. It is the path chosen by Jesus. He wanted to have a mother: the gift of faith comes to us through women, as Jesus came to us through Mary.

During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference.

Let us learn from the Virgin Mary how to be bolder in obeying the word of God.

Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy.

You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.

We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.

Today, in Mexico, they speak 65 languages, counting the indigenous languages, 65. It is a people of great faith. They have also suffered religious persecution.