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We feel like if we miss a Sunday at church, that's one thing, but we can't miss an opportunity to help.

For individuals to become fully active in the Church, they generally must experience a spiritual conversion and a social integration.

The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me and been close to me.

We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.

One of the things you'll discover... as you listen to your own soul is that you spend a great amount of your life trying to bring meaning to your own life. And, by the way, most people are not going to church, so the place they're actually trying to find meaning in their life is at work.

I know that those of us who go into church work are to regard ourselves as servants, are to offer our lives as a gift.

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.