It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good. Thus will they be able to marshal the moral resources needed to face the demands of the present, and to pass on to coming generations a society of authentic justice, solidarity and peace.

Men, to exist, to become complete and mature, need to feel the joy of fatherhood. When a man does not have this desire, something is missing in this man, it is like an incomplete life: a life that stops half way. The grace of fatherhood; of giving life to others, of pastoral paternity, of spiritual paternity is a gift from God.

May we try to listen and be silent in order to make space for the beauty of God.

How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!

We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.

There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all belong.

If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.