Christian love is loving without counting the cost. This is the lesson of the Good Samaritan; this is the lesson of Jesus.

We who are Christians, members of God’s family, are called to go out to the needy and to serve them.

Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.

Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply.

No elderly person should be like an “exile” in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society.

10 days before the death of St. John Paul II, in that Via Crucis of Holy Friday, Joseph Ratzinger said to the whole Church that it needed to clean up the dirt of the Church.

May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.