May we learn to say “thank you” to God and to one another. We teach children to do it, and then we forget to do it ourselves!

Today, we need a Church capable of walking at people's side, of doing more than simply listening to them.... At times we lose people because they don't understand what we are saying, because we have forgotten the language of simplicity and import an intellectualism foreign to our people.... We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel.

Each encounter with Jesus fills us with joy, with that deep joy which only God can give.

Let us pray for peace: peace in the world and in each of our hearts.

I don't know if I had success or not. But I am afraid of myself. Why am I afraid of myself? I always feel - I don't know - weak in the sense of not having power and also power is a fleeting thing, here today, gone tomorrow.

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.