Peace is always possible but we have to seek it. Let us pray for peace.

Let us learn from the Virgin Mary how to be bolder in obeying the word of God.

Do not be afraid of what God asks of you! It is worth saying 'yes' to God. In him we find joy.

Our infinite sadness can only be cured by an infinite love.

It's best to not confuse optimism with hope. Optimism is a psychological attitude toward life. Hope goes further. It is an anchor that one hurls toward the future, it's what lets you pull on the line and reach what you're aiming for and head in the right direction. Hope is also theological: God is there, too.

Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God’s love. Be missionaries of God’s tenderness!

This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention of communism and it must not be turned into an ideology, as has sometimes happened before in the course of history.