Dear friends, let us not forget the flesh of Christ which is in the flesh of refugees: their flesh is the flesh of Christ. It is also your task to direct all the institutions working in the area of forced migration to new forms of co-responsibility. This phenomenon is unfortunately constantly spreading. Hence your task is increasingly demanding in order to promote tangible responses of closeness, journeying with people, taking into account the different local backgrounds.

Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.

It is through an unbroken chain of witnesses that we come to see the face of Jesus.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Whenever we encounter another person in love, we learn something new about God.

Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.