"Do you love me?"; "Are you my friend?". The One who scrutinizes hearts (cf. Rom 8:27), makes himself a beggar of love and questions us on the one truly essential issue, a premiss and condition for feeding his sheep, his lambs, his Church. May every ministry be based on this intimacy with the Lord; living from him is the measure of our ecclesial service which is expressed in the readiness to obey, to humble ourselves, as we heard in the Letter to the Philippians, and for the total gift of self.

Another very interesting chapter is the education of children: the victims of problems of the family are the children. The children. Even of problems that neither husband nor wife have a say in. For example, the needs of a job. When the dad doesn't have free time to speak to his children, when the mother doesn't have time to speak with her children.

A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.

From the way children are treated society can be judged.

I try to lead a life where I don't have to ask God for forgiveness.

At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable.

Obeying God is listening to God, having an open heart to follow the path that God points out to us.