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.

...all that is carried along by the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current-- carried where?

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?

For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands... and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.

You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.