Indifference to our neighbour and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience.

We ask ourselves and each of us may wonder: Does the Lord feel truly at home in my life? Do we allow him to do a 'cleansing' in our hearts and to drive out the idols, those attitudes of greed, jealousy, worldliness, envy and hatred, that habit of gossiping and tearing down others?

How often we forget to dedicate ourselves to that which truly matters! We forget that we are children of God.

Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.

The family is a community of love where each of us learns to relate to others and to the world around us.

Each encounter with Jesus changes our life.

In a word: charity cannot be neutral, antiseptic, indifferent, lukewarm or impartial! Charity is infectious, it excites, it risks and it engages! For true charity is always unmerited, unconditional and gratuitous!