“I am here to listen,” Pope Leo XIV told the cardinals in the Consistory, as he laid the foundations for the Church's mission, as defined in Vatican II's Lumen Gentium and by the pontiffs St. Paul VI and St. John Paul II first, and Benedict XVI and Francis later. “Unity attracts, division disperses”, and “the commandment of love”, have been nuclear themes.

The priest reflects on Epiphany as an event that breaks with destiny, invites personal conversion, and proposes a contemporary interpretation of the gifts from the East.