Let us never lose hope! God loves us always, even with our mistakes and sins.

Accompanying the people in their growth through good times and also through their difficulties, accompanying people in their joy and in their bad moments, in their difficulties when there is no work, ill health and the challenge of the Church.

Let Christ turn your natural optimism into Christian hope, your energy into moral virtue, your good will into genuine self-sacrificin g love! This is the path you are called to take. This is the path to overcoming all that threatens hope, virtue and love in your lives and in your culture. In this way your youth will be a gift to Jesus and to the world.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

It does not render justice to the victims, but rather fosters vengeance.

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them.

Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.