Whenever we take a step towards Jesus, we come to realize that he is already there, waiting for us with open arms.

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

These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.

I don’t know if it is all (man’s fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.

Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy.

The annual World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation will offer individual believers and communities a fitting opportunity to reaffirm their personal vocation to be stewards of creation, to thank God for the wonderful handiwork which he has entrusted to our care, and to implore his help for the protection of creation, as well as his pardon for the sins committed against the world in which we live.

In mission, also on a continental level, it is very important to reaffirm the family, which remains the essential cell of society and the Church; young people, who are the face of the Church's future; women, who play a fundamental role in passing on the faith and who are a daily source of strength in a society that carries this faith forward and renews it.