This "nothing" that the disciples share with Jesus expresses at once the power and the impotence of the apostolic office.

Hope is an enormously important, if widely neglected and misunderstood, virtue.

Faith is to believe without understanding, without seeing.

"Lo! You were Somebody all of a sudden."

These are very deep and searching questions.

Rise up then in the morning with the purpose that (please God) the day shall not pass without its self-denial.

She began where others end, whether in knowledge or in love.

The crucial factor is . . . based on faith:

Never think we have a due knowledge of ourselves till we have been exposed to various kinds of temptations, and tried on every side.

Regarding the delicate issue of the relations to be maintained with the agencies of the State, particular enlightenment can be found in the invitation of the Second Vatican Council to follow the words and modus operandi of Jesus Christ.