It looks so fitting today [next] to the candle used last year during the illness of the Holy Father and during the whole time of his funeral. While the Holy Father's personal light may go out through death and transition to heaven, the light of Christ ever burns brightly and it continues through these wonderful symbols [of rose and candle].

We have the great joy today of introducing and blessing a new rose which has been developed.

The war on terror isn't going to be won through immigration restrictions.

Is it not possible that their prayer --- their intercession with God --- might in fact help bring about an end to the slaughter? That is very possible.

It is unacceptable that immigrant workers labor in unsafe conditions for wages insufficient to support their families. It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest.

We celebrate together tonight that unity and that harmony as we bless these oils for the sacramental rites of the church. In a certain sense Jesus comes as the Anointed One tonight to anoint all of us and to help us be a part of his special mission.