Today’s and all-time man has been tempted to exclude God from his horizon to proclaim himself a god of himself. The consequences have been catastrophic: racial genocides, world wars, predatory subjugations from one people to another. Only God is God and we are his creations, unique and exceptional created in his image, but only creatures. He and only He is the Father who gives us life every day, sustains us in it, and invites us to share it with those around us. The desire to keep his commandments presupposes this understanding of God and the human person. This dependence and commitment, to which we submit freely, does not enslave us, but frees us; it makes us more and better people, citizens more authentic and committed to the society in which we live. It is important that in this time of Lent, before Christ crucified, we identify our crosses, embrace them, and understand that they are crosses that save us because they are part of the cross of Christ, who shares with us their weight and pain. Such an attitude will always demand the utmost from myself, the confrontation of one’s own and others’ lies and injustices, authenticity and coherence in all that I think, say and do, confrontation, to be possible always peaceful and respectful, with those who lie, deceive, manipulate or use others, inside and outside the Church. […]