We, the women and men of the Church, we are in the middle of a love story: each of us is a link in this chain of love. And if we do not understand this, we have understood nothing of what the Church is.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

An authentic faith always implies a deep desire to change the world.

The Lord is knocking at the door of our hearts. Have we put a sign on the door saying: 'Do not disturb'?

Love makes us similar, it creates equality, it breaks down walls and eliminates distances. God did this with us.

Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy.