There's only a very small representation of girls among you. Too little. Women have much to tell us in today’s society. Sometimes we are too machistas and we don't allow enough space to women. But women can see things from a different angle to us, with a different eye. Women are able to pose questions we men are unable to understand. Look out for this fact: she is the only one who has put a question for which there is no answer. She couldn't put it into words but expressed it with tears.

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 become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves.

The important thing is to not walk alone, but to rely on each other as brothers and sisters

We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites don’t know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and the love of God.

Today one can read the Gospel also on so many technological instruments. You can carry the whole Bible on your mobile phone, on your tablet. It is important to read the Word of God, by any means, but by reading the Word of God: Jesus speaks to us there! And welcome it with an open heart. Then the good seed will bear fruit!

When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off.