Man Has Slapped Nature In The Face.

Together With A Culture Of Work, There Must Be A Culture Of Leisure As Gratification. To Put It Another Way: People Who Work Must Take The Time To Relax, To Be With Their Families, To Enjoy Themselves, Read, Listen To Music, Play A Sport.

We Too Need To Protect, Guide, And Encourage Our Young People, Helping Them To Build A Society Worthy Of Their Great Spiritual And Cultural Heritage. Specifically, We Need To See Each Child As A Gift To Be Welcomed, Cherished, And Protected. And We Need To Care For Our Young People, Not Allowing Them To Be Robbed Of Hope And Condemned To Life On The Streets.

If The Seminary Is Too Large, It Ought To Be Divided Into Smaller Communities With Formators Who Are Equipped Really To Accompany Those In Their Charge. Dialogue Must Be Serious, Without Fear, Sincere. It Is Important To Recall That The Language Of Young People In Formation Today Is Different From That In The Past: We Are Living Through An Epochal Change. Formation Is A Work Of Art, Not A Police Action. We Must Form Their Hearts. Otherwise We Are Creating Little Monsters. And Then These Little Monsters Mold The People Of God. This Really Gives Me Goose Bumps.

You Can't Have Christ Without The Church.

Being Christian Is Not Just Obeying Orders But Means Being In Christ, Thinking Like Him, Acting Like Him, Loving Like Him; It Means Letting Him Take Possession Of Our Life And Change It, Transform It, And Free It From The Darkness Of Evil And Sin. ... Let Us Show The Joy Of Being Children Of God, The Freedom That Living In Christ Gives Us Which Is True Freedom, The Freedom That Saves Us From The Slavery Of Evil, Of Sin And Of Death!