The Sacraments Are The Manifestation Of The

I Would Like To Ask All Those Who Have Positions Of Responsibility In Economic, Political And Social Life, And All Men And Women Of Goodwill: Let Us Be 'protectors' Of Creation, Protectors Of God's Plan Inscribed In Nature, Protectors Of One Another And Of The Environment.

Christ Leads Us To Go Out From Ourselves More And More, To Give Ourselves And To Serve Others.

There Is Another Temptation Which We Must Especially Guard Against: The Simplistic Reductionism Which Sees Only Good Or Evil; Or, If You Will, The Righteous And Sinners. The Contemporary World, With Its Open Wounds Which Affect So Many Of Our Brothers And Sisters, Demands That We Confront Every Form Of Polarization Which Would Divide It Into These Two Camps.

Around Us There Is The Presence Of Evil. The Devil Is At Work. But In A Loud Voice I Say: God Is Stronger.

Whenever I Have A Problem, I Ask The Saint (thérèse Of Lisieux) Not To Solve It, But To Take It Into Her Hands And To Help Me Accept It And I Almost Always Receive A White Rose As A Sign.