And now I would like to give the blessing, but first - first I ask a favor of you: before the Bishop blesses his people, I ask you to pray to the Lord that he will bless me: the prayer of the people asking the blessing for their Bishop.

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

Each person, and every people hungers and thirsts for peace; therefore, it is necessary and urgent to build peace!

Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.

We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does "the" truth really exist? What is "the" truth? Can we know it? Can we find it?

Jesus intercedes for us each day. Let us pray: Lord, have mercy on me; intercede for me!

How many young people, how many young people of our Europe, whom we have left empty of ideals, who do not have work... they take drugs, alcohol, or go there to enlist in fundamentalist groups.