All Of Us Are Called To Fight

Holy Week Challenges Us To Step Outside Ourselves So As To Attend To The Needs Of Others: Those Who Long For A Sympathetic Ear, Those In Need Of Comfort Or Help. We Should Not Simply Remain In Our Own Secure World, That Of The Ninety-nine Sheep Who Never Strayed From The Fold, But We Should Go Out, With Christ, In Search Of The One Lost Sheep, However Far It May Have Wandered.

The Person Who Gossips Is A Terrorist Who Drops A Bomb, Destroys, And They Destroy Others.

The Times Talk To Us Of So Much Poverty In The World And This Is A Scandal. Poverty In The World Is A Scandal. In A World Where There Is So Much Wealth, So Many Resources To Feed Everyone, It Is Unfathomable That There Are So Many Hungry Children, That There Are So Many Children Without An Education, So Many Poor Persons. Poverty Today Is A Cry.

The Youth Say Stupid Things And They Say Good Things, As We Do, As Everyone Does. But Hear Them, Speak With Them, Because We Must Learn From Them And They Must Learn From Me, From Us.

May The Deepest Spiritual Values Of The Filipino People Continue To Find Expression In Your Efforts To Provide Your Fellow Citizens With An Integral Human Development. In This Way, Each Person Will Be Able To Fulfill His Or Her Potential, And Thus Contribute Wisely And Well To The Future Of This Country.