Poverty Is The Center Of The Gospel.

Wine Is A Sign Of Happiness, Love And Plenty, How Many Of Our Adolescents And Young People Sense That These Are No Longer Found In Their Homes? How Many Women, Sad And Lonely, Wonder When Love Left, When It Slipped Away From Their Lives? How Many Elderly People Feel Left Out Of Family Celebrations, Cast Aside And Longing Each Day For A Little Love?

How Many Christians Live For Appearances? Their Life Seems Like A Soap Bubble. The Soap Bubble Is Beautiful, With All Its Colours! But It Lasts Only A Second, And Then What?

Indifference Towards Those In Need Is Not Acceptable For A Christian.

An Authentic Faith-which Is Never Comfortable Or Completely Personal-always Involves A Deep Desire To Change The World, To Transmit Values, To Leave This Earth Somehow Better Than We Found It.

My Brothers, The United States Bishops, Have Reminded Us, All Are Called To Be Vigilant, Precisely As Good Citizens, To Preserve And Defend That Freedom From Everything That Would Threaten Or Compromise It.