What is the first manifestation of service to society?
Service to society.
You serve your fellow men
when you seek their spiritual good, and material good as well.
If each one of us puts a little bit of effort, peace, tranquility and serenity will come
to this troubled world. In this way you help society.
You can talk about peace again and again, and still peace won’t come. If we have it
in our hearts we can give it to our families, we can give it to society, and we can give it to the world.
First peace in our soul and from there: joy.
I have on my conscience many thousands of hours spent in
hearing children's confessions in the slums of Madrid.
When I was 25 years old I used to come a lot to all these wastelands
to wipe away tears, to help those in need of help,
to treat with affection the children, the old, the sick.
Solutions of justice and solutions of charity. Christian solutions.
An immediate solution: Be better every day, you and I.
In that King's Hospital, there was nothing but incurable tuberculosis patients.
And those were the weapons with which to win, and that was the treasure with which to pay,
and that was the strength to move us forward.
May there be less poor people in the world, less ignorance,
may there be more justice.
And I will tell you that the first means to achieve this is prayer,
secondly mortification, which you can exercise in your work doing it very well,
and then treating everyone with affection.
You have to give the tools to people so that, with their work, they can ensure a minimum of wellbeing
in their old age, in sickness, in the the education of their children
and so many other things that are needed.
So it will be within their reach the marvelous possibility
not only of the daily bread but also of their wellbeing.
Don't you think so?
Well then, let's help. Let's help!