You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar the face of Filipino society, plainly contradicting the teaching of Christ.

Jesus is more than a friend. He is a teacher of truth and life who shows us the way that leads to happiness.

Our life must be centred on what is essential, on Jesus Christ. Everything else is secondary.

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

Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world!

We all have in our hearts some areas of unbelief. Let us say to the Lord: I believe! Help my unbelief.