The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.

People in every nation enhance the social dimension of their lives by acting as committed and responsible citizens.

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just young people, are unemployed, many times due to a purely economic conception of society, which seeks selfish profit, beyond the parameters of social justice.

Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world!

One form of prayer moves us particularly to take up the task of evangelization and to seek the good of others: it is the prayer of intercession. Let us peer for a moment into the heart of Saint Paul, to see what his prayer was like. It was full of people: "...I constantly pray with you in every one of my prayers for all of you... because I hold you in my heart" (Phil 1:4, 7). Here we see that intercessory prayer does not divert us from true contemplation, since authentic contemplation always has a place for others.

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.