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

I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.

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.

...we must also acknowledge that the majority of the men and women of our time continue to live daily in situations of insecurity, with dire consequences. Certain pathologies are increasing, with their psychological consequences; fear and desperation grip the hearts of many people, even in the so-called rich countries; the joy of life is diminishing; indecency and violence are on the rise; poverty is becoming more and more evident. People have to struggle to live and, frequently, to live in an undignified way.

We are called to live our baptism every day, as new creatures, clothed in Christ.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

Dear friends, let us not forget the flesh of Christ which is in the flesh of refugees: their flesh is the flesh of Christ. It is also your task to direct all the institutions working in the area of forced migration to new forms of co-responsibility. This phenomenon is unfortunately constantly spreading. Hence your task is increasingly demanding in order to promote tangible responses of closeness, journeying with people, taking into account the different local backgrounds.