As another year draws to an end, let us pause before the manger and express our gratitude to God for all the signs of his generosity

On this Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, let us first of all gratefully remember her visit and maternal closeness.

Full of grace! This is how God saw her from the first moment of his loving design. He saw her as beautiful, full of grace.

Mary lived out her faith in the simplicity of the thousand daily tasks and worries of every mother, such as providing food, clothing, caring for the house.… It was precisely Our Lady’s normal life which served as the basis for the unique relationship and profound dialogue which unfolded between her and God, between her and

Just as in each of our lives, we always need to begin again, to get up again, to rediscover the meaning of the goal of our lives, so also for the great human family it is always necessary to rediscover the common horizon toward which we are journeying.… The model of this spiritual disposition, of this way of being and journeying in life, is the Virgin Mary.