I would like that all of us, after these days of grace, might have the courage - the courage - to walk in the presence of the Lord, with the Cross of the Lord: to build the Church on the Blood of the Lord, which is shed on the Cross, and to profess the one glory, Christ Crucified. In this way, the Church will go forward.

I read little, I just glance through one newspaper. Just 15 minutes.

Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.

We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.

Let's return to our first love, in order to receive the fire which Jesus has kindled in the world and to bring that fire to all people, to the very ends of the earth.

Christian hope is not a ghost and it does not deceive. It is a theological virtue and therefore, ultimately, a gift from God that cannot be reduced to optimism, which is only human. God does not mislead hope; God cannot deny himself. God is all promise.

Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.