Our Lady is always close to us, especially when we feel the weight of life with all its problems

Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.

Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way.

I recognize that globalization has helped many people rise out of poverty, but it has also damned many others to starve to death. It is true that global wealth is growing in absolute terms, but inequalities have also grown and new poverty arisen.

Let us ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to live daily according to the mind of Jesus and his Gospel.

Every time we judge our brother in our hearts or worse when we speak badly of them with others, we are murdering Christians.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.