I ask all people of goodwill to help build a culture of encounter, solidarity and peace

I would like to say something just about the Mexican people. It is a population that has a wealth, such great wealth, a people that surprises.

We must recover the whole sense of gift, of gratuitousness, of solidarity. Rampant capitalism has taught the logic of profit at all costs, of giving to get, of exploitation without looking at the person... and we see the results in the crisis we are experiencing! This Home is a place that teaches charity, a "school" of charity, which instructs me to go encounter every person, not for profit, but for love.

The Book of Genesis tells us that God created man and woman entrusting them with the task of filling the earth and subduing it, which does not mean exploiting it but nurturing and protecting it, caring for it through their work.

The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.

Lent is a good time for sacrificing. Let us deny ourselves something every day to help others.

Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonised.