When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. The seven angels of destiny cannot blow the signal of the next times to be, until an eighth angel gathers these prayers and mingles them with incense upon the altar. Silently they rise to the nostrils of God. Human beings have intervened in the heavenly liturgy. The uninterrupted flow of consequences is damned for a moment.
New alternatives become feasible.
The unexpected becomes suddenly possible because God's people on earth have invoked heaven, the home of the possibles and have become heard. What happens next happens because people prayed. We affirmed together that prayer is the key to removing every obstacle that stands in the way of world evangelization. We inquired how a new agenda in world missions for the new century might be built. We felt that agenda should affirm the whole of Christian mission to the whole world.