We Christians identify Christ with the sun, and the moon with the Church, the community of the faithful. No one, save Jesus Christ, possesses his or her own light.

As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family.

We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s true that accidents can happen when you go out into the street, as can happen to any man or woman. But if the Church remains closed onto itself, self-referential, it grows old. Between a Church that goes into the street and gets into an accident and a Church that is sick with self-referentiality, I have no doubts in preferring the first.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

Let us not have a computer psychology that makes us think we know it all. All answers on computers - but no surprises. The challenge of love. God reveals himself through surprises.

Let us ask Mary to help us fix our eyes intently on Jesus, to follow him always, even when this is demanding.

Trust in the power of Christ’s Cross! Receive his reconciling grace and share it!