May we always care for our children, not counting the cost, so that they may never believe themselves to be mistakes, but always know their infinite worth.

The economic part is the one that came out first because there were some problems about which the press spoke a lot.

How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!

We have so much information but maybe we don’t know what to do with that information. So we run the risk of becoming museums of young people who have everything but not knowing what to do with it. We don’t need young museums but we do need holy young people.

May we always say thank you to God, especially for his patience and mercy.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

In the Gospel we have just heard, Jesus, the Master, teaches the crowds and the small group of his disciples by accommodating himself to their ability to understand. ... Jesus does not seek to 'play the professor.' Instead, he seeks to reach people's hearts, their understanding and their lives, so that they may bear fruit.