May 21

Become holy. Each one of us has a capacity to become holy and the way to holiness is prayer.

May 20

Give a person tender love and care. Your radiating concern, your radiating joy will give that person great hope.

May 19

Whereas you work to bring about peace, why is it you do not work, they ask, to lessen war? If you are working for peace, that peace lessens war. But I won't mix in politics. War is the fruit of politics, and so I don't involve myself, that's all. If I get stuck in politics, I will stop loving. Because I will have to stand by one, and not by all. This is the difference.

May 18

Even though I cannot personally meet and talk to each one of you, you are in my daily prayer. My deep gratitude to you for all the ways in which you help us by serving the poor alongside us, and for all your prayers and sacrifices. Your sufferings accepted in love by Jesus are the source of many graces. You are sharing wholeheartedly in all we do.

May 17

For us to be able to love we need to see, we need to touch, and that is why we read in the Scriptures, Jesus made the poor the hope of salvation for you and for me.

May 16

I think it is very important for us as co-workers to put that understanding love into action. A co-worker is not a name only. A co-worker is not first belonging to something. Any person who carries that love, who shares that love is a co-worker in action. And so let us come to this simple definition of a co-worker: "A co-worker is a person who puts her love for God into living action and service for the poor. Where? In the family first and then for others. We must not neglect our homes and go out before we have started inside and begin with ourselves first. Then, because we have practiced that, we are able to give to others.

May 15

To women: "You and I, being women we have this tremendous thing in us, understanding love. I see that so beautifully in our people, in our poor women, who day after day, meet suffering, accept suffering for the sake of their children. I have seen mothers going without so many things, even resorting to begging, so that the children may have what they need.