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 love of Christ fills our hearts and makes us always able to forgive!

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

It's important if you can do good with power. And Jesus defined power, true power is to serve, to do service, to do the most humble services, and I must still make progress on this path of service because I feel that I don't do everything I should do. That's the sense I have of power.

We must walk united with our differences: there is no other way to become one. This is the way of Jesus.

Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.

You may be poor yourselves in material ways, but you have an abundance of gifts to offer when you offer Christ and the community of his Church.