Be missionaries of God's tenderness!

Where there is truth, there is also light, but don't confuse light with the flash.

The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.

The key phrase used by the synod, which I'll take up again, is 'integrate' in the life of the Church the wounded families, remarried families, etc. But of this one mustn't forget the children in the middle. They are the first victims, both in the wounds, and in the conditions of poverty, of work.

We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort to remain faithful to our call to holiness, and many others. But if we open the door to Jesus and allow him to be part of our lives, if we share our joys and sorrows with him, then we will experience the peace and joy that only God, who is infinite love, can give.

There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.

Sunday is the Lord’s Day. Let us find time to be with him.