On this World #PressFreedom  Day, let us #PrayTogether  for the journalists who pay in person, with their lives or imprisonment, to serve this right. Special thanks to those who courageously inform us of the wounds of humanity.

We should not fear the crises of life and faith. Crises help us recognize that we need God and thus allow us to return to the Lord, to experience his love anew.

Every day of May, let us #PrayTogether  the Rosary for peace. My thought goes to the Ukrainian city of Mariupol', "Mary's City", barbarically bombed and destroyed. I renew the request that secure humanitarian corridors might be arranged for the people trapped in that city.

I beg you, let us not surrender to the logic of violence, to the perverse spiral of weapons. May the path of dialogue and peace be taken! #PrayTogether 

Let us often turn to Mary, Mother of believers! The various forms of Marian devotion, and especially the recitation of the #HolyRosary , will help us live our journey of faith and Christian witness. #PrayTogether 

Old people lose some sight, but their inner gaze becomes more penetrating. They become capable of seeing things that previously escaped them. The Lord does not give his talents only to the young and the strong. He has talents for everyone, made to fit each person. #BlessingOfTime 

#Holiness does not consist of a few heroic deeds, but of loving a lot every day.

Let us allow Jesus the Living Bread to heal us of our self-absorption. May he open our hearts to sharing, heal us from rigidity and turning in on ourselves, and inspire us to follow him wherever he wants to lead us.