The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.

We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others.

Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Every act of reverence, every genuflection that you make before the Blessed Sacrament is important because it is an act of faith in Christ, and act of love for Christ. And every sign of the cross and gesture of respect made each time you pass a church is also an act of faith.

Hands are the heart's landscape.

The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources through foreign financial aid - public and private - granted under reasonable conditions, within the framework of international commercial relations regulated with fairness.

Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the "Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named," from whom every human family comes.