Every child who, rather than being born, is condemned unjustly to being aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ, bears the face of the Lord, who even before he was born, and then just after birth, experienced the world’s rejection. And every elderly person…even if he is ill or at the end of his days, bears the face of Christ. They cannot be discarded, as the ‘culture of waste’ suggests!

The Holy Spirit helps us to view others with fresh eyes, seeing them always as brothers and sisters in Jesus, to be respected and loved.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good.

Those called to the service of governance in the church need to have a strong sense of justice, so that any form of injustice becomes unacceptable.

Are our lives truly filled with the presence of God? How many things take the place of God in my life each day?

Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation

We are not alone. We have many brothers who in this moment of catastrophe came to help. And we too, because of this, we feel more like brothers and sisters because we helped each other.