Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished.

We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s true that accidents can happen when you go out into the street, as can happen to any man or woman. But if the Church remains closed onto itself, self-referential, it grows old. Between a Church that goes into the street and gets into an accident and a Church that is sick with self-referentiality, I have no doubts in preferring the first.

A Christian brings peace to others. Not only peace, but also love, kindness, faithfulness and joy.

May the Lord bless the family and strengthen it in this moment of crisis

The worship of the golden calf of old (cf. Ex 32:15-34) has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal.

And does not true freedom mean choosing ways in this world that lead to the good of all and are guided by love?

As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.