Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.

To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.

"God is love". His is not a sentimental, emotional kind of love but the love of the Father who is the origin of all life, the love of the Son who dies on the Cross and is raised, the love of the Spirit who renews human beings and the world. Thinking that God is love does us so much good, because it teaches us to love, to give ourselves to others as Jesus gave himself to us and walks with us. Jesus walks beside us on the road through life.

It is important to have friends we can trust. But it is essential to trust the Lord, who never lets us down.

When I have a problem, I write it down and ask St Joseph to sleep on it

Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own.