On a positive note, we must reaffirm the right of children to grow up in a family with a father and a mother capable of creating a suitable environment for the child’s development and emotional maturity.

Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.

No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.

Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.

Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty.

The life of Jesus is a life for others. It is a life of service.

When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities. Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.