The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting us to have life and to have it in abundance.

Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'.

In the context of the "great mystery" of Christ and of the Church, all are called to respond - as a bride - with the gift of their lives to the inexpressible gift of the love of Christ, who alone, as the Redeemer of the world, is the Church's Bridegroom.

Christian holiness does not being sinless, but rather it means struggling not to give in and always getting up after every fall.

Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.