Eternal life is already within them on this earth, and manifests itself in the capacity to love the enemy. When the kerygma is accepted, it produces fruits. The evidence in the Neocatechumenal Communities are the many marriages rebuilt, the many vocations to the presbyterate and the religious life, and the rehabilitation of so many people whose lives had been destroyed by alcohol, drugs and violence. During the meeting the New Evangelisation was discussed. The Neocatechumenal Way is an answer to just these questions.
Faith is born of the preaching which generates divine life in the ones who listen to it.
At the end of the meeting the majority of the participants expressed their desire to send to the Holy Father a letter stating their own positive experience of the Way. This was the question Cardinal O'Connor asked at the beginning of the meeting. In the letter, the bishops also expressed their gratitude to the Pope for his support of the Neocatechumenal Way. To this, they added their support for the Pope's intention to give the Way further juridical recognition. This meeting of bishops is the fifth organised by the Neocatechumenal Way.