The Philippines bear witness to the youthfulness and vitality of the Church.

Love is more powerful, love gives life, love makes hope blossom in the wilderness.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

Many of you have asked the Lord, looking at Him: Why, Lord? And the Lord answers to each one of you, to your heart, Christ responds with His heart. It's the only thing I can tell you. Let us look to Christ, He is the Lord and He understands us because He underwent all the trials that we go through.

Jesus is not a figure from the past: He continues now and always to light the way for us.

May God welcome the dead into his peace, comfort the families and convert the hearts of the violent ones, who do not even stop before children.

For us Christians, love of neighbour springs from love of God; and it is its most limpid expression. Here one tries to love one's neighbour, but also to allow oneself to be loved by one's neighbour. These two attitudes go together, one cannot be exercised without the other. Printed on the letterhead of the Missionaries of Charity are these words of Jesus: "as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me". Loving God in our brethren and loving our brethren in God.