Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace!

We ask ourselves and each of us may wonder: Does the Lord feel truly at home in my life? Do we allow him to do a 'cleansing' in our hearts and to drive out the idols, those attitudes of greed, jealousy, worldliness, envy and hatred, that habit of gossiping and tearing down others?

How often we forget to dedicate ourselves to that which truly matters! We forget that we are children of God.

We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth.

We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.

Let us ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to live daily according to the mind of Jesus and his Gospel.

The Pope is a man. The Pope needs the input of women, too. And the Pope, too, has a heart that can have a healthy, holy friendship with a woman.