Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

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.

It is neither a culture of confrontation nor a culture of conflict which builds harmony within and between peoples, but rather a culture of encounter and a culture of dialogue; this is the only way to peace.

This is the mission of every Christian: lumina pandit - to spread the light and to tell the world of God's love.

A credible witness to truth and to the values of the Gospel is urgently needed.

There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness