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.

The people that does not care for its children or grandparents is a people that has not future. Because it doesn't have the strength or the memory to go forward.

May we try to listen and be silent in order to make space for the beauty of God.

There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.

The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society.

Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.

We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!