Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

Division within a Christian community is a very grave sin; it is the work of the devil.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man to one of his needs alone, namely, consumption. Worse yet, human beings themselves are nowadays considered as consumer goods which can be used and thrown away.

Despite our sins, we can say with Peter: Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you.

Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.

The Corrupt should be tied to a rock & thrown into the sea