Birth: December 17, 1936
We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!.
Only trust in God can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into radiant dawn..
If evil is contagious, so is good:therefore, we must allow good to abound in us, more and more;let us be infected by goodness, and let us spread the ….
Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover….
Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await ….
The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time.
If we live according to the law "an eye for an eye...," we will never escape from the spiral of evil..
The world makes us look towards ourselves, our possessions, our desires.The Gospel invites us to be open to others, to share with the poor..
Do I pray that the Lord gives me the desire to do his will, or do I look for compromises because I'm afraid of God's will?.
Miracles happen. But prayer is needed! Prayer that is courageous, struggling and persevering, not prayer that is a mere formality..
I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being conf….
In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could lead to a hardness of heart, we are called to dive into the sea of prayer, which is the sea of t….
What God cares about most is that we are His friends..
Lent is a time of grace, a time to convert and live out our baptism fully..
The cry of a baby is God's voice: never drive them away from the church!.
When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no?.
Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits..
Those called to the service of governance in the church need to have a strong sense of justice, so that any form of injustice becomes unacceptable..
We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crise….
Do not feel discouraged by all the challenges and hardships you might face. I ask you not to forget that, like those who came here before you, you br….
If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would acc….