No One Can Grow If He Does

Reforming The Social Structures Which Perpetuate Poverty And The Exclusion Of The Poor First Requires A Conversion Of Mind And Heart.

The Philippines Bear Witness To The Youthfulness And Vitality Of The Church.

Confession Is The Sacrament Of The Tenderness Of God, His Way Of Embracing Us.

If God, In The Christmas Mystery, Reveals Himself Not As One Who Remains On High And Dominates The Universe, But As The One Who Bends Down, Descends To The Little And Poor Earth, It Means That, To Be Like Him, We Should Not Put Ourselves Above Others, But Indeed Lower Ourselves, Place Ourselves At The Service Of Others, Become Small With The Small And Poor With The Poor. It Is Regrettable To See A Christian Who Does Not Want To Lower Himself, Who Does Not Want To Serve. A Christian Who Struts About Is Ugly: This Is Not Christian, It Is Pagan.

We Are Not Alone. We Have Many Brothers Who In This Moment Of Catastrophe Came To Help. And We Too, Because Of This, We Feel More Like Brothers And Sisters Because We Helped Each Other.