The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

Let us never forget that it is the Lord who guides the Church. He is the one who makes our apostolates fruitful.

It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car.

Jesus wanted to show us his heart as the heart that loved so deeply. For this reason we have this commemoration today, especially of God's love. God loved us, he loved us with such great love. I am thinking of what St Ignatius told us.... He pointed out two criteria on love. The first: love is expressed more clearly in actions than in words. The second: there is greater love in giving than in receiving.

I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.

If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.