Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart.

Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.

A Christian who does not protect Creation, who does not let it grow, is a Christian who does not care about the work of God, that work that was born from the love of God for us. And this is the first response to the first creation: protect creation, make it grow.

The parish is the presence of the Church in any given territory, an environment for hearing God's word, for growth in Christian life, for dialogue, proclamation, charitable outreach, worship and celebration.

Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

Fundamental relationships are being called into question, as is the very basis of marriage and the family. I can only reiterate the importance and, above all, the richness and the beauty of family life.