The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.

Jesus wanted to show us his heart as the heart that loved so deeply. For this reason we have this commemoration today, especially of God's love. God loved us, he loved us with such great love. I am thinking of what St Ignatius told us.... He pointed out two criteria on love. The first: love is expressed more clearly in actions than in words. The second: there is greater love in giving than in receiving.

Being Christian without the Church doesn't make sense. That's why the great Paul VI, said that the most absurd dichotomy is loving Christ without the Church. To listen to Christ, but not the Church. To be with Christ, but stay at the margins of the Church. It's not possible. It's an absurd dichotomy.

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those Churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

If sadness comes to you one day with an invitation, tell it you are committed to joy and will be faithful to it your whole life long.

We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!

Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.