From our saints I have learned many things, and above all from the word of God. The word of God, which is Jesus Christ, who has guided me during 50 years of priesthood. However, I don't know if I will be able to celebrate them in this world, or already in heaven. April 29th marks the 50th anniversary of my priestly ordination. There are biblical texts that express my spiritual experience: "God's ways are not our ways, nor are his thoughts our thoughts." “All the ways of God are mercy and faithfulness.” “Everything works together for the good of those who love God”, even sins. "If anyone feels tired, let him come to me and I will give him relief." Christ does not take away the cross from us, but he helps us carry it. «Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merciful Father and God of all consolation! He consoles us in all our tribulations, so that we too can console those who find themselves in every kind of affliction with the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God." “Cast your troubles on the Lord and he will support you” “In God we live and move and have our being.”
From our saints I have learned many things: from our Holy Mother (Teresa of Avila) I learned: «Nothing disturbs you, nothing scares you»; from the Mother herself I learned what her book says about her life, in chapter 19: "God does not tire of giving, we do not tire of receiving". From our Father Saint John of the Cross I learned the path of faith and that "God's gaze towards us is love" and "where there is no love, put love and love will be born". From Therese of Lisieux I learned: "The more you are among the poor, the more the Lord will love you." From Edith Stein I learned what the search for truth means and that what was not in my plans was in God's plans.
At the end of my life, what I experienced was above all the gratuitousness of God: gratuitousness of God who gave me life; gratuitousness of God who made me born into a very good family, an intact family, a united family; gratuitousness of God who called me to Carmel; the generosity of God who guided me on the path of my preparation for priestly ordination and religious life; God's gratuitousness now in my illness, in which even the smallest details are thought of by him and he goes towards them. Brothers and sisters: then the moment will certainly come when we will all find ourselves up there in the Carmel of heaven, in the meantime, let us continue to walk and put this wonderful charism that Saint Teresa of Jesus and Saint John gave us at the service of God and the Church of the cross.