Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem. May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man.

The Christian truth is attractive and persuasive because it responds to humanity's deepest needs.

The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to be a beacon of goodness, integrity and justice in our communities.

Let us pray for peace, and let us bring it about, starting in our own homes.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love.

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time