I want to express a wish for you. After all you have heard it might not be understood, but I do it all the same because there's nothing better I can say.
I wish that in your life, having encountered this great thing, which is a grace of God, as now we hear said naturally and spontaneously in every place where there is one of us; through the grace of this encounter that we have been given, there is a potentiality in you, a potentiality in you that the Spirit has put there, implicitly or more explicitly, according to each one's history, a capacity that the Spirit has put into you for witnessing to Christ, who is the only thing the world is waiting for, because where Christ is, relationships are peace, unity and peace, including those between married couples (unity and peace must be the binomial of the family; but this is true for everyone). In any case, whatever the form of your vocation, my wish is that in this great thing, through this great thing that the Lord has given you, if it becomes more and more personal, that is to say more obedient (because personalization, too, is obedience lived out intelligently), you may meet a father, you may have the experience of a father. Because the first belonging, physiologically and sociologically speaking, and even to your own eyes, is to your parents. God is given to us through our father and mother.
May each one of you discover the greatness of this role, which is not a role; it is the condition in which man looks at and sees God, and in which God entrusts to man what he most wants; father and therefore mother, because it's the same thing, spiritually they are not two different things; it is only materially that things change, when one has his own limitation and the other a different one. So this is why I wanted to come here to greet you. May you live the experience of father; father and mother; this is my wish for all the leaders, for all those responsible for your communities, but for each one of you, too, because each one has to be father to the friends he has around him, has to be mother of the people around about; not giving himself airs, but with effective charity. For no-one can feel as fortunate and glad as a man and a woman who feel themselves made fathers and mothers by the Lord. Fathers and mothers of all those they meet. Do you remember-as the second book of the School of Community describes it-, when Jesus was walking through the fields with his Apostles, near the town of Naim, and saw a woman weeping as she followed her dead son to his burial? He went up to her; he didn't say, "I'm going to raise your son". He said, "Woman, don't weep", with a tenderness, affirming unmistakable tenderness and love for the human person! And then he gave her back her son alive. But this isn't the point, because even other people can work miracles, but this charity, this love for man that is proper to Christ is quite beyond compare! Let's go.