Pope Francis shares this with us today: “Remain in me and I in you" (Jn 15:4). This "remaining" is not passive but active. It is a mutual remaining. "I am the vine, you are the branches" (Jn 15:5). We branches need the lymph, and the vine needs the fruit of our witness… Prayer belongs to everyone: to men and women of every religion, and probably even to those who profess no religion. Prayer is born within the secrecy of our being, in that interior place that spiritual writers often call the “heart.” May God have mercy on us and put an end to this tragedy, this pandemic, as well as the pandemics of hunger, war, and children without an education. This we ask as brothers and sisters, everyone together.”