We all need to improve, to change for the better. Lent helps us fight against our faults.

The rosary is spiritual medicine.

A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.

We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular solidarity with the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters: the poor, the disabled, the unborn and the sick, migrants and refugees, the elderly and the young who lack employment.

Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral obligation.

Let's not forget that God never gets tired of forgiving so let's never get tired of asking for forgiveness.

We ask the risen Jesus, who turns death into life, to change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace. Yes, Christ is our peace, and through him to implore peace for all the world.