“… You have asked yourselves how to respond to the current challenge of today’s culture… it is a culture of self-referentiality, it is a culture, I would say, of & “make-up”;, where it is more important to put on make-up than to grow, than to move forward; a culture of the mirror, self-referentiality. And this is bad. A culture, of self-referentiality, which is a bit egotistic, it leads us to indifference, not to take care of others, to look the other way, to selfishness, and this disturbs the order of human relationships and opens to the many shortcuts of slavery of injustice, of exploitation, which offend the dignity of persons… Do not stay on the balcony, do not observe with detachment, but approach, bend down, touch with your hand. Attention therefore to be close, to take care. And here, dear sisters, you have the excellent school of your Founder, who taught you to be Good Samaritans, always on the road but ready to stop to take care of the poor, the wounded of life, bind up the wounds and listen, listen a lot, to heal from indifference, to heal from loneliness, and to restore dignity. Every time we approach a person with charity, with love, we restore his dignity. The dignity of Christ, who comes with our gesture of charity…”
