Then he invites us again to strongly propose the sacrament of Reconciliation. This Sacrament, well presented and maintained during the Jubilee Year, has shown itself able to overcome the crisis with which it seemed irremediably afflicted in the last decades. In the Church there are well defined areas and instruments of communion. They must be maintained and encouraged. Among the tasks which cannot be overlooked is that of ecumenism, to live always more, with all our brothers in the faith, the fullness which the Church enjoys already mysteriously in Christ.
Fraternal charity is a great pastoral challenge.
The Pope points out the multiple challenges before the Church, asking that they be tackled with a renewed imagination and generosity, the expression of the concrete love of God in the situations of most various suffering and need. Here we will find the signs of charity which the Pope wishes to see remain as the fruit and memory of the jubilee year. Once the 'accounts have been balanced' so to speak, Rome will present something which will be a symbol of the flowering of charity that the universal Church must continue to deal with in the new millennium. Among witness not to be neglected, is that of interreligious dialogue, according to the light of conciliar directives. Without renouncing our duty of Christian proclamation, dialogue still remains a significant hot line for the growth of all in the search for truth and the promotion of peace.