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I am pleased to welcome you while you are participating in the meeting of the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops in preparation for the Ordinary General Assembly convened the next 5 to 26 October. I greet and thank Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, Secretary General, for his kind words, and then extend my gratitude to all members of both the Secretariat of the Synod that the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat. Greetings one and all with sincere affection.In his recent encyclical letter on Christian hope, Spe Salvi, I wanted to emphasize the "character of hope" (No. 14). "Being in communion with Jesus Christ - I wrote - it draws us into his" being for all, it makes it our way of being. He commits us to the other, but only in communion with him does it become possible truly to be there for others ", as there is a" connection between love of God and responsibility for others "(ibid., 28), which can not return to the ' individualism of salvation and hope.
I think we can discover this fruitful principle effectively applied experience Synod, in which we meet him communion and solicitude for all the Churches (cf. 2 Cor 11:28) is apparent in the concern of all.The next General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will reflect on "The Word of God in the life and mission of the Church." The major tasks of the ecclesial community in the contemporary world - among many others, I emphasize evangelization and ecumenism - are centered on the Word of God and at the same time are justified and supported by it. As the Church's missionary activity with its evangelizing work finds inspiration and purpose in the Lord's merciful revelation, ecumenical dialogue can not rely on words of human wisdom (cf. 1 Cor 2:13) or shrewd strategic expediency, but should be Animated only by constant reference to the original Word, which God has entrusted to his Church, to be read, interpreted and lived in his community.
In this context, the doctrine of St. Paul reveals a very special power, obviously based on divine revelation, but also on his own apostolic experience, which confirmed again and again the awareness that human eloquence is not wisdom, but only power of the Holy Spirit builds the Church in faith (cf. 1 Cor 1.22 to 24, 2.4 s).By a happy coincidence, is particularly revered St. Paul this year, thanks to the celebration of the Pauline Year. The holding of the forthcoming Synod on the Word of God will, therefore, the contemplation of the Church, and especially of its pastors, including the testimony of this great apostle and herald of the Word of God to the Lord, he first pursued and then consecrated as a whole his being, Paul remained faithful until death: May his example be an encouragement for all to accept the Word of salvation and to translate it into daily life in the faithful following of Christ. The Word of God have devoted their attention to other ecclesial bodies consulted in view of the Assembly in October. It will turn their hearts, the Synod Fathers, after taking note of the preparatory documents, the Lineamenta Instrumentum laboris, which you yourselves in the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops have helped to write. They will have the opportunity to confront each other, but above all to unite in collegial communion to listen to the Word of life which God has entrusted to the loving care of his Church, because the ads with courage and conviction, with the parresia Apostles, near and far.
In fact, everyone should be given, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, the opportunity to encounter the living Word who is Jesus Christ.Dear and Venerable Brothers, as members of the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, you bear a meritorious service to the Church, because the synodal organism constitutes a qualified institution to promote truth and unity of the pastoral dialogue within the Mystical Body of Christ. Thank you for what you do not without sacrifice: God reward you! We continue to pray together for the Lord to make fruitful the whole Church the Synod Assembly. With this hope, I impart a special Apostolic Blessing to you and to the communities entrusted to your pastoral care, invoking the intercession of the Blessed Mother of the Lord and the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, which we call the Liturgy, together with the other Apostles, " the pillar and ground of the city of God. "
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