They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

To follow Jesus means to share his merciful love for every human being.

...because with us what is highest must be at the service of others.

It's important if you can do good with power. And Jesus defined power, true power is to serve, to do service, to do the most humble services, and I must still make progress on this path of service because I feel that I don't do everything I should do. That's the sense I have of power.

The Lord always grants more than what he has been asked: you ask him to remember you, and he brings you into his Kingdom!