Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another.

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

We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s true that accidents can happen when you go out into the street, as can happen to any man or woman. But if the Church remains closed onto itself, self-referential, it grows old. Between a Church that goes into the street and gets into an accident and a Church that is sick with self-referentiality, I have no doubts in preferring the first.

Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy.

I would like that all of us, after these days of grace, might have the courage - the courage - to walk in the presence of the Lord, with the Cross of the Lord: to build the Church on the Blood of the Lord, which is shed on the Cross, and to profess the one glory, Christ Crucified. In this way, the Church will go forward.

Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions.

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.