This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.

It is through an unbroken chain of witnesses that we come to see the face of Jesus.

The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

If priest is closed to forgiveness, he won't receive it, because he locked the door from the inside. And what remains is to pray for the Lord to open that door. To forgive you must be willing. But not everyone can receive or know how to receive it, or are just not willing to receive it.

The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.

We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.

I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I asked for the Mexican people. And another thing I asked a lot for: that priests be true priests, and sisters true sisters, and bishops true bishops. As the Lord wants.