You may be poor yourselves in material ways, but you have an abundance of gifts to offer when you offer Christ and the community of his Church.

How many Christians live for appearances? Their life seems like a soap bubble. The soap bubble is beautiful, with all its colours! But it lasts only a second, and then what?

We should all remember... that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the poor, the hungry! I encourage everyone to reflect on the problem of thrown away and wasted food to identify ways and means that, by seriously addressing this issue, are a vehicle of solidarity and sharing with the needy.

I believe in the old warrior's credo that "to the victor go the spoils."

Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.

Christ’s love and friendship are no illusion. On the Cross Jesus showed how real they are.

Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.