*/ 13. Suffering "Suffering in itself has no value. The greatest gift we can love is the possibility to share Christ's passion." I like to repeat this time and time again: the poor are wonderful. The poor are very kind. The have great dignity. The poor give us more than what we give them. In many countries besides Calcutta, we

*/ 14. Loneliness "In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack, of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one." There are many kinds of poverty: Even in countries where the economic situation seems to be a good one, there are expressions of poverty hidden

*/ 15. God and Christianity "Only God knows our true needs." You will be surprised to know that in the poorest neighbourhoods in many of the cities where we live and work, when we get close to the people who live in shacks, the first thing they ask of is not bread or clothes, even though often they are dying

*/ 16. Our Mission "I was hungry and you gave me food...I was a stranger and you welcome me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me..” (Matthew 25:35-36) Our work is based on these words of Jesus. We never accept an invitation to eat out. Would you like to know