Birth: April 16, 1927
Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God in all situat….
Do not be afraid of seeming different and being criticized for what might seem to be losing or out of fashion; your peers but adults too, especially ….
Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, n….
It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding ….
The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The dark door of time….
While we too always seek other signs, other wonders, we do not realize that he is the real sign, God made flesh; he is the greatest miracle of the un….
Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the i….
The ways of the Lord are not easy, but we were not created for an easy life, but for great things, for goodness..
Making the sign of the Cross - as we will do during the Blessing - means saying a visible and public "yes" to the One who died and rose for us, to Go….
The "name" of the Most Holy Trinity is in a certain way impressed upon everything that exists, because everything that exists, down to the least part….
Civilization is now under the tyranny of relativism..
The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good..
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very….
Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist..
From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does but through what he accepts. He….
God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved..
To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity..
God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them..
The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystica….
God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us..
God no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in him. His dynamic enters into us and then seeks ….