Jesus Himself Has Shown Us By His

For A Stalk To Grow Or A Flower To Open There Must Be Time That Cannot Be Forced; Nine Months Must Go By For The Birth Of A Human Child; To Write A Book Or Compose Music Often Years Must Be Dedicated To Patient Research ...to Find The Mystery There Must Be Patience, Interior Purification, Silence, Waiting.

Side By Side With The Miseries Of Underdevelopment...we Find Ourselves Up Against A Form Of Superdevelopment, Equally Inadmissable. This Superdevelopment Consists In An Excessive Availability Of Material Goods For The Benefit Of Certain Social Groups And Makes People Slaves Of "possession" And Immediate Gratification, With No Other Horizon Than The Multiplication Or Continual Replacement Of The Things Already Owned With Others Still Better. This Is The Civilization Of Consumption, Or "consumerism," Which Involves So Much Throwing Away And Waste.

Modern Society Will Find No Solution To The Ecological Problem Unless It Takes A Serious Look At Its Lifestyle.

The Primordial Model Of The Family Is To Be Sought In God Himself, In The Trinitarian Mystery Of His Life. The Divine "we" Is The Eternal Pattern Of The Human "we", Especially Of That "we" Formed By The Man And The Woman Created In The Divine Image And Likeness... Man Is Created "from The Very Beginning" As Male And Female: The Life Of All Humanity - Whether Of Small Communities Or Of Society As A Whole - Is Marked By This Primordial Duality.

Since Christ Is The Only Way To The Father, In Order To Highlight His Living And Saving Presence In The Church And The World, The International Eucharistic Congress Will Take Place In Rome, On The Occasion Of The Great Jubilee. The Year 2000 Will Be Intensely Eucharistic: In The Sacrament Of The Eucharist The Savior, Who Took Flesh In Mary's Womb Twenty Centuries Ago, Continues To Offer Himself To Humanity As The Source Of Divine Life