This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.

We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular solidarity with the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters: the poor, the disabled, the unborn and the sick, migrants and refugees, the elderly and the young who lack employment.

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming collectors of antiques or novelties, instead of being shepherds living with 'the odor of the sheep.' This I ask you: Be shepherds, with the 'odor of the sheep,' make it real, as shepherds among your flock, fishers of men.

Every conflict is emblematic of the throwaway culture.

Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God and love of all things in God - this is the sign that you are on this right path.

Remembrance saves a people's soul from whatever or whoever would attempt to dominate it or use it for their interests.