Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us to break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed, scandalous social inequalities. Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.

Where the elderly are not honored, there is no future for the young.

The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples -- they are not the same, today's culture and society have become rather indifferent to the delicate and serious nature of this passage.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.