AAS 70 [1978] - El Vaticano

416 Acta Apostolicae Sedis - Commentarium Officiale
munion of the universal Church, leading your people along the path
of life. Remember that Christ tells us : "I am with you always ". u
Dear Brothers in Christ : Why do we speak about these things?
Because of the vital importance of the thème of life as an orientation
of our ministry. But also, so that, gathered in the Holy Spirit, we
may expérience together the joy of life in Christ, and the joy of being
apostles of him who is Life itself. And we pray that, through the
power of the Holy Spirit, you will go forth to prepare in your local
Churches a fresh outpouring of Christian joy among ail your people :
a joy based on the keen conviction that God sent his Son to bring
eternai life, so that the world might be saved through him.
With these sentiments, Brethren, and with deep affection in the
Lord, we send our greeting and our Apostolic Blessing to ail your
Diocèses : to ail your clergy, religious, seminarians and laity. " Peace
to ail of you who are in Christ." 13
III
Ad sodales Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Conventualium, post actum in Italica
urbe Asisio CXC Capitulum Generale.*
Dilecti filii,
Cum caritatis affectu salutamus vos et alloquimur, sodales Capituli
•Generalis Fratrum Minorum Conventualium, quod apud sepulcrum
Seraphici Patris vestri, cuius sacrae exuviae, potestate per Nos data,
nuper sunt recognitae, modo egistis ad magni ponderis negotia Ordinis
pertractanda. Peculiari ratione salvere iubemus dilectum filium Vita­
lem Bommarco, cui grave officium Ministri Generalis iterum est com­
missum, eique salutarem huius muneris perfunctionem precamur.
Eo ergo convenistis, ubi religiosa familia vestra est orta, id est
Asisii, in urbe venusta et praeclara, quae pietatem Franciscalem egre­
gie spirat. Persuasum quidem vobis fuit et est — ut probe arbitramur
— redeundum vobis iugiter esse ad mentem vitaeque exempla Sancti
Francisci, qui Evangelium Christi ad usum mirabiliter deductum stu­
penti mundo exhibuit. Hunc ipsum «reditum ad primigeniam iusti-.
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Mt 28:20. '
1 Vt 5:14.
* Die 29 m. maii a. 1978.