We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular solidarity with the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters: the poor, the disabled, the unborn and the sick, migrants and refugees, the elderly and the young who lack employment.

Dear young friends, learn to pray every day: this is the way to know Jesus and invite him into your lives.

From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.

When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human misery, to touch the suffering flesh of others. He hopes that we will stop looking for those personal or communal niches which shelter us from the maelstrom of human misfortune and instead enter into the reality of other people’s lives and know the power of tenderness. Whenever we do so, our lives become wonderfully complicated and we experience intensely what it is to be a people, to be part of a people.

When we do not profess Jesus Christ, we profess the worldliness of the devil, a demonic worldliness.