Birth: December 17, 1936
We Christians identify Christ with the sun, and the moon with the Church, the community of the faithful. No one, save Jesus Christ, possesses his or ….
You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become past….
When we give help to the poor, we are not doing the work of aid agencies 'in a Christian way'. Those are good, it is a decent thing to do - aid work ….
Every expression of true beauty can be acknowledged as a path leading to an encounter with the Lord Jesus..
Jesus is God but he humbled himself to walk with us. He is our friend, our brother..
We are called to be 'ambassadors for Christ' (2 Cor 5:20). Ours is a ministry of reconciliation ... To be an ambassador for Christ means above all to….
Ours is not a joy born of having many possessions, but of having encountered a person: Jesus in our midst..
Jesus tells us what the 'protocol' is, on which we will be judged. It is the one we read in chapter 25 of Matthew's Gospel: I was hungry, I was thirs….
Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that God has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!.
All revealed truths derive from the same divine source and are to be believed with the same faith, yet some of them are more important for giving dir….
The Cross of Christ bears the suffering and the sin of mankind, including our own. Jesus accepts all this with open arms, bearing on His shoulders ou….
May the World Day of Consecrated Life be a timely occasion to rediscover the centrality of Jesus in our lives..
Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human misery, to touch….
It is through an unbroken chain of witnesses that we come to see the face of Jesus..
It's important if you can do good with power. And Jesus defined power, true power is to serve, to do service, to do the most humble services, and I m….
Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life! If up till now you have kept him at a distance, step forward. H….
The life of a family is filled with beautiful moments: rest, meals together, walks in the park or the countryside, visits to grandparents or to a sic….
Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration..
Each encounter with Jesus changes our life..
Who are we, as we stand before the child Jesus? Who are we, standing as we stand before today's children? Are we like Mary and Joseph, who welcomed J….
How wonderful it is to be surprised by God’s call, to embrace his word, and to walk in the footsteps of Jesus... Your life will become richer and mor….