This is Christian hope, that the future is in God's hands.

True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

Dear young people, listen within: Christ is knocking at the door of your heart.

Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

When I confess a couple who have kids, a married couple, I ask, 'how many children do you have?' Some get worried and think the priest will ask why I don't have more. I would make a second question, 'Do you play with your children?' The majority say, 'but father, I have no time. I work all day.'

Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.