Birth: December 17, 1936
Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven..
The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love..
You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works..
Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us..
Breathing is made up of two stages: inhaling, the intake of air, and exhaling, the letting out of air. The spiritual life is fed, nourished, by praye….
Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare..
Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life..
These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to….
Go, do not be afraid and serve.
Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy..
Families will always have their trials; be living examples of love, forgiveness, and care.
An authentic faith always implies a deep desire to change the world..
The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information. The latter….
The scourge of drug trafficking, that favors violence and sows the seeds of suffering and death, requires of society as a whole an act of courage..
Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit..
The Golden Rule reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development. This conviction has led me, from….
Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!.
Now, at the end of my visit to the Philippines, I commend you to Him, to Jesus who came among us as a child. May He enable all the beloved people of ….
I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well becaus….
Christ is always faithful. Let us pray to be always faithful to him..
Jesus spoke in such a way that the people loved the things of God. That’s why they followed him..