Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others.

This is what marriage is all about - Man and woman walking together, wherein the husband helps his wife to become ever more a woman, and wherein the woman has the task of helping her husband to become ever more a man.

Missionaries never give up on their dream of peace, even when they experience difficulties and persecution, which makes their presence strongly felt today.

We cannot live as Christians separate from the rock who is Christ. He gives us strength and stability, but also joy and serenity.

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

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others. To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love, is to open up a horizon of hope; it is to let a shaft of light break through the heavy clouds; it is to bring the warmth of hope!