We must recover the whole sense of gift, of gratuitousness, of solidarity. Rampant capitalism has taught the logic of profit at all costs, of giving to get, of exploitation without looking at the person... and we see the results in the crisis we are experiencing! This Home is a place that teaches charity, a "school" of charity, which instructs me to go encounter every person, not for profit, but for love.

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

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

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

I don't live in the papal residence. I live in a simple apartment behind the Vatican gas station.

Jesus speaks in the silence of the mystery of the Eucharist and reminds us each time that following him means going out of ourselves and making our lives not something we 'possess,' but a gift to him and to others.

A simple lifestyle is good for us, helping us to better share with those in need.