In a word: charity cannot be neutral, antiseptic, indifferent, lukewarm or impartial! Charity is infectious, it excites, it risks and it engages! For true charity is always unmerited, unconditional and gratuitous!

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.

"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.

We don't need youth museums but we do need holy young people.

The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.