Given - and this is the fundamental thing - that God's mercy has no limits, if He is approached with a sincere and repentant heart, the question for those who do not believe in God is to abide by their own conscience. There is sin, also for those who have no faith, in going against one's conscience. Listening to it and abiding by it means making up one's mind about what is good and evil.

Every expression of true beauty can be acknowledged as a path leading to an encounter with the Lord Jesus.

Accompanying the people in their growth through good times and also through their difficulties, accompanying people in their joy and in their bad moments, in their difficulties when there is no work, ill health and the challenge of the Church.

This Christmas may we be consistent in living the Gospel, welcoming Jesus into the centre of our lives.

A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties.

Only trust in God can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into radiant dawn.

Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.