The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace.

Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.

In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.

Let us never forget that it is the Lord who guides the Church. He is the one who makes our apostolates fruitful.

Holy Week challenges us to step outside ourselves so as to attend to the needs of others: those who long for a sympathetic ear, those in need of comfort or help. We should not simply remain in our own secure world, that of the ninety-nine sheep who never strayed from the fold, but we should go out, with Christ, in search of the one lost sheep, however far it may have wandered.

The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend himself.

Who are we, as we stand before the child Jesus? Who are we, standing as we stand before today's children? Are we like Mary and Joseph, who welcomed Jesus and cared for him with the love of a father and a mother? Or are we like Herod, who wanted to eliminate him? Are we like the shepherds, who went in haste to kneel before him in worship and offer him their humble gifts? Or are we indifferent?